Australian MPs who billed taxpayers for trips copying and pasting text for reports

Delegations to Fiji, Romania, Vietnam, Switzerland and Philippines copied content from similar trips when reporting back

When federal politicians travel the globe on taxpayer-funded delegations, they’re usually obliged to do just one thing when they return: tell the parliament what they did.

But an investigation by Guardian Australia has found delegations that spent tens of thousands of dollars on airfares, hotels, and meals are simply copying and pasting large slabs of text in their reports back to parliament.

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