The big difference when comparing the two governments is this, one government had a sense of entitlement and regardless of their own financial situation, over spent on hotel rooms and first class fares because they could. The other government, as identified in another article today, do not feel the need to flaunt their wealth and act responsibly. They are in politics not for the money but because they genuinely care about their country. When the other side gets like minded people into their party, then we can start pointing fingers.

There are budget airlines and cheap airfares.

Do MPs and Senators get airline discounts because they travel on government business? If so, why not state it?

Do they get first class and/or business class tickets at discount fares from the airlines?

If their airfares were discounted by the airlines then so be it, so why not state it?

$205 per person per night at the hotel for 3 rooms, discounted? Why not state it?

I find ground transport highly suspect – $884.86 – they spent more travelling in Manhattan to launch a perfume than they did for the cost of one person’s airfare and 2 days stay in New York? Or put another way, they spent as much on ground transport as they could have spent on 3 bottles of Lilli perfume.

Pardon my confusion, I thought that the perfume launch was in Manhattan, as were the hotels? $884.86 ground transport?

Does one have to chisel down to the bone before you realise that you are being fleeced? By false and an omission of information.

Perhaps, if OBA supporters stopped looking into the past at the PLP government and look at how to stop these transgressions from reoccurring from the current government, then we are on the road to plugging the leaks to our national debt.

How much is used from the public purse by government officials deserves to be scrutinised and stopped, whether PLP or OBA.

I’d actually rather they combine all costs from across departments and post altogether. That’s the information that we really want.

@more than enough – at the end of the day you’re probably on the right track , but for now we still have questions.

THE OBA will blatantly fool you and then BLATANTLY try to cover it up! And half of us believe the foolishness they throw at us! Oh good Lord.

The Previous Livinginup Party billed meals AND claimed their per diem – even for partial travel days. After all, they felt it was their ‘right’.

The Premier’s known entourage were three people, NOT two; Dunkley, Baron and Talbot. Now make your revision on costs. Air travel of 3 tickets $354.28 per ticket. Begins to sound implausible? When it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

And we await further revisions as the truth trickles out.

Air Travel: $1,062.85 – at 2 tickets that $530 for a round trip to NY

Ground Transportation: $844.86 – at approx. $100/hr, this amounts to about 8 hours of limo service in NY for travel over 3 days to and from venues.

Accommodation: $1226.79 – 2 rooms (for Premier and Senator) for 2 nights each, total is approx. $300 / room night

Meals: $93.65 – I can only guess that they were provided meals by the hosts. This would cover 1 person’s dinner in NY, unless they ate bagels, falafel and hot dogs every day.

Actually, these costs seem within reason to me, the only odd charge is for the meals (but its lower than what I’d expect). Maybe now that these cost are posted, politicians will think twice about what they charge the public.

As the OBA is in charge, I am sure if this was not true, the former Premier’s detailed travel expenses would have been released along with proof that he was lying.

The rest fall under different Ministries/Departments and will be uploaded shortly.

Reading is fundamental.

But I have a feeling you won’t believe anything they put up there either way. So why bother asking?

A little more believable too.

Maybe we can hae some comparisson figures from some of the PLP trips which have produced zero return on the investment.

If I understand this correctly, the $3228.15 are for the Premier and the Senator.

The costs for the other folks are not reflected in this number. However, the web site does not separately lists costs for Gibbons or Crockwell, for example. Thus, the total costs to the taxpayer is still a mystery.

A certain former Premier with a penchant for travel on the taxpayer’s dime to non-productive far flung destinations in the near, middle and far east that NEVER produced tangible results for voters, would have spent more than this on the same trip for ground transportation and personal security alone!