MSPs begin £40,000 Antipodean trip

Oct 12 2009

A delegation of MSPs has begun a £40,000 two-week visit to Australia and New Zealand.

The programme got under way in Perth with a visit to the Parliament of Western Australia and will end on Friday week with a visit to New Zealand parliamentarians in Dunedin, with visits to Adelaide, Melbourne, Canberra, Sydney and Wellington.

The cross-party delegation, led by Presiding Officer Alex Fergusson, has four MSPs - the Tories' Ted Brocklebank, the Liberal Democrats' Ross Finnie, Labour's Rhoda Grant and the SNP's Sandra White.