Education Department Splurged $12,000 on Fine Dining Meetings

Published on February 15, 2024

The Australian Education Department has apologised to Australian taxpayers for spending thousands of dollars at fine dining restaurants to holding meetings. Shadow Education Minister Senator Sarah Henderson called this expenditure “appalling.” “No matter who it is, holding a meeting should be in a meeting room with a cup of tea and a biscuit,” she said during a parliamentary hearing on Feb. 15. “These are just restaurant rorts. How did this happen in the first place? How could you run a department which allows this sort of flagrant waste of taxpayers’ dollars?” Senator Sarah Henderson during her first day in the Senate at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, on Sept. 12, 2019. (Tracey Nearmy/Getty Images) The Education Department revealed that over six months, they had spent $12,637.31 (US$8,200) at high-end restaurants across Australia and South Korea....

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