No cost of living crisis here. Just helping out the hospitality sector. Peter Dutton's free lunches to cost taxpayers under $250m, Coalition claims. Saul Eslake calls it "small business fetishism" - belief SB is better than govt or other business. #auspol https://www.afr.com/politics/dutton-s-taxpayer-funded-business-lunches-to-cost-less-than-250m-20250124-p5l6ye
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s taxpayer-funded business lunches to cost less than $250m
Labor accuses the Coalition of using taxpayer money to ‘shout your boss steak tartare’, but the opposition says its policy will help the hospitality sector.Michael Read (Australian Financial Review)