But I do love our Prime Minister here in Australia, because he doesn't like wasting money.
His official residence has been undergoing renovations, so he's been staying in student housing at the Australian Federal Police academy because it was the cheapest option he could find that met the AFP security concerns (in fairness, I will also point out Labor Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, also did the same at least once).
“Personally, I expect leaders of countries to travel with a bit of luxury and don’t really begrudge it to them.”
Explain why they deserve one item of “luxury” beyond a safe environment that is functional?
Why would a national leader need to travel in luxury? A fine argument can be made that they need to fly first class in an airliner, and stay in a business class suite.
Deal with the world they foist upon all of us. Bastards every one.
Bit of luxury is ok.
But top of the line ALL THE TIME?
Whatever happened to trying to save money for the people paying the bills (I.e. us).