The high costs of our Royal System (click)

I wonder what royalists are thinking on how they can justify this gravy train?.... And these are only present and past Governors General.
Throw in former state governors and what a costly regal system we have in Australia.
Onward the Republic of Australia I say.


AUSTRALIA'S former governors-general are each costing taxpayers as much as $500,000 a year in pensions, office space and executive staff.

According to documents obtained under Freedom of Information laws, the total cost of former governors-general has risen to nearly $3 million a year or $237,205 a month.

The biggest spenders are former Labor leader Bill Hayden and controversial Howard Government appointee Peter Hollingworth, who was forced to resign in 2003 after less than two years in the job.

Mr Hayden has cost an average of $539,000 a year since the 2007 election and Dr Hollingworth an average of $502,000.

Click header for full story! Source: Adelaide's Sunday Mail.