Taxpayers forked out $2.5m in legal expenses for eight former Coalition ministers, including two prime ministers, to be represented in the robodebt royal commission, with almost half a million for Scott Morrison.
Ahead of the release of the royal commission report on Friday, the Attorney General’s Department has revealed the cost of legal assistance as of 24 May this year, including that the former attorney general and social services minister Christian Porter incurred legal bills totalling $795,053.
