Posted 11/26/2023, 4:00:00 PM
Auckland Mayor's Luxury Trips and Surprise Travel Raise Questions
- Auckland mayor Wayne Brown took a week-long trip to India despite advice from council officials not to go
- Brown flew business class to India and later went to Paris, staying in a luxury hotel paid for by the regional French government
- In Paris, Brown got free tickets to the Rugby World Cup opener and met with the mayor of Angers, who paid for a night's accommodation
- Brown made a solo trip to Melbourne to discuss port privatization, surprising Auckland councillors
- Brown has made 4 overseas trips in his first year as mayor, more than double his predecessor's trips in the same timeframe