ALBO & BOWEN’S $35 MILLION NO EXPENSES SPARED FIJI CLIMATE JUNKET BLOWOUT, WHILE YOU STRUGGLE TO PAY THE POWER BILL. Labor just got caught rednhanded in Senate Estimates. The Pre-COP31 Pacific climate summit they said cost $20 million actually has $34.6 million in contracted commitments, another Labor lie, and that’s only the “outer bounds.” The real total is still hidden because they’re desperately trying to claw money back from other countries. Here’s the rort: $8.4 million on hotel rooms and venues across 13 properties, including a string of five star resorts on exclusive Denarau Island. Another $682,000 splashed on the five star Sofitel Darling Harbour in Sydney for warm up events. $2 million just for a host broadcaster so the world could watch the talking shop online. At least $50,000 and counting flying their hand picked Youth Climate Champion, Sally Higgins, around the globe in business class, Germany, Kenya, UK, Denmark, Turkey, Korea, Fiji and more. Flights alone topped $28k on one multi country jaunt. Bowen told reporters it was $20 million. Officials confirmed that was only part of the bill. They refuse to give a final figure. Questions about which world leaders actually showed up were fobbed off. When pressed, Environment Minister Murray Watt defended the spend by pointing to Abbott’s G20 and Howard’s APEC, as if that makes this any less outrageous. All of this comes out of the $147.8 million Labor set aside for Bowen’s COP31 “presidency” role. While families are getting crushed by power prices, housing costs and grocery bills, Albanese and Bowen are treating taxpayer money like a personal Pacific holiday fund for bureaucrats and climate activists. This isn’t “leadership.” It’s a five star rort dressed up as saving the planet. And they still won’t tell you the full cost.