King Charles' first visit to Australia as monarch cost taxpayers $640,060.47 despite being shortened due to health concerns. The six-day trip, Charles' 16th to Australia, saw scaled-back activities and no state dinners. The cost included travel, accommodation, event management, ground transport, and other expenses.
King Charles ’ first visit to Australia as reigning monarch cost taxpayers more than $600,000, despite the head of state being on the ground fewer than six days.
The much-anticipated trip to Australia, which was Charles’ 16th visit to this country and his first since 2018, was significantly scaled back because of the King’s ongoing health problems, which have includedThe 76-year-old Charles’ planned visit to New Zealand was axed from the program while his activities in Australia were also curtailed.
While in Australia, Charles and Queen Camilla visited only Sydney and Canberra, and the visit did not include any state dinners or evening events, while one of the four whole days he was in the country was set aside as a rest day to help “preserve the King’s energies”, according to the BBC. Charles was just the second reigning monarch to visit Australia after his mother, Queen Elizabeth II. The tour included a short visit to NSW parliament for a lunch in his honour, a trip to Parliament House in Canberra that was famouslyA spokesperson for the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet said that as of November 30, 2024, the total cost of the royal visit was $640,060.47, excluding GST.The cost breakdown includes $437,468.82 on travel, accommodation and meals, $119,263.
In 2011, Elizabeth’s 11-day trip to Australia – which took her to Canberra, Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth – cost taxpayers $2,687,854. A five-day trip to Australia in 2006, which took Elizabeth to Canberra, Sydney and then Melbourne to open the Commonwealth Games, cost taxpayers $1,450,239.
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