9News obtained documents showing that in March of this year, Dr Heithersay spent more than $30,000 of taxpayer's money while attending a mining conference in Canada.
As the CEO of the Department for Energy and Mining, Dr Paul Heithersay is responsible for saving South Australians money on their energy bills.
But his spending is now in the spotlight after 9News obtained documents showing that in March of this year, Heithersay spent more than $30,000 of taxpayer's money while attending a mining conference in Canada. "We're in a cost of living crisis and the government should be cutting their cloth appropriately and not spending money to this extent," shadow treasurer Matt Cowdrey said.9News obtained documents showing that in March of this year, Dr Heithersay spent more than $30,000 of taxpayer's money while attending a mining conference in Canada. Today his deputy, Vince Duffy, defended the bill.
The department says when you factor in the attendance of those four other staff members, the total cost to taxpayers was actually around a hundred thousand dollars."I think it's not just chief executives, it's ministers too. It's something we want to pay attention to."
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