$3m climate of waste by Department of Climate Change | thetelegraph.com.au

JET-SETTING bureaucrats have been slammed for raking up 6.5 million kilometres in air travel - amassing 1000 tonnes of carbon emissions...
Officials from the Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency spent $3.274 million last year, travelling the world to speak about the perils of a warming planet.
...The department also spent $265,000 accommodating its delegation to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Durban in 2011.

The department's staff took in some of the world's premier holiday destinations, including Cancun in Mexico, the Maldives, Vanuatu, Miami and Grenada and Guyana in the Caribbean.
...There were trips to Africa and South America, plus the standard trips to London, Barcelona, Los Angeles, Paris, Hong Kong and Tokyo. More than 42 flights cost more than $10,000, with one flight from Sydney to Bali on March 23 costing $15,311, while another to Seoul from Canberra on October 25 cost $15,688.
The department defended the expenditure as critical to advance Australia's interests by representing it at crucial climate change negotiations.