It is estimated that Australian taxpayers chipped in at least a million bucks to support the bid of former Liberal finance minister, Mathias Cormann, to become Secretary-General of the Paris-based Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development.
Of course, no one actually asked us whether we wanted to spend this money but, hey, the Prime Minister declared that ‘Mathias would be an outstanding Secretary-General of the OECD’.
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