SHOCKFACTS: Corporate schmoozing

Wednesday, February 23, 2005 - 11:00

Federal education minister Brendan Nelson refuses to adequately fund the higher education sector. Yet he has been splurging on corporate hospitality, spending $600,000 on wining and dining business executives, including:

  • $70,508 in 2001-02

  • $206,104 in 2002-03

  • $256,205 in 2003-04

  • $103,187 in the six months to December 2004

[Source: The February 16 Sydney Morning Herald. Got a shockfact? Email <glw@greenleft.org.au>.]

From Green Left Weekly, February 23, 2005.

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