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Drought Envoy

Barnaby Joyce "Drought Envoy" - Where's the money?

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Barnaby Joyce, the former Deputy Prime Minister of Australia, claimed $675,000 in expenses for the nine months he was a drought envoy and was allocated two staff members at a cost of about $200,000. However, he spent less than three weeks on the ground in drought-affected communities outside of his electorate while engaged as the government’s special drought envoy 1. It is unclear whether he ever gave a full account of the money.

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