• PM John Howard spent more than $500 of public funds per week on alcohol at his two official residences, the Lodge and Kirribilli House, during the last financial year.

• Howard’s spending on alcohol reached $27,196 during the 12 months to July 2004.

• Four years ago, a wine consultant was appointed after a freedom-of-information request found the prime ministerial cellar’s stocks of good wine had been run down.

[Source: The February 27 Sunday Telegraph. Got a shockfact? Email <glw@greenleft.org.au>.]

From Green Left Weekly, March 23, 2005.
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