How to be a government minister? Senator James McGrath buys a book and charges the taxpayer

By Michael Koziol
Updated December 2 2016 - 11:08pm, first published 9:27pm
Liberal National senator James McGrath bought the book: "How to be a minister: a 21st century guide." Photo: Robert Shakespeare
Liberal National senator James McGrath bought the book: "How to be a minister: a 21st century guide." Photo: Robert Shakespeare

Summer is here, Parliament has risen and no doubt our more bookish leaders will use the long break to expand their horizons through literature. It's only now, with the release of expenditure reports from the first half of the year, that we get a look at what politicians were reading last summer.