Expenditure on smoking ceremonies

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This release from Treasury, titled "Expenditure on smoking ceremonies" and marked FOI 4508, consists of a single one-page table of three expenditure entries. The table records the date, purpose or event, and GST-exclusive and GST-inclusive amounts. The entries are: $1,130.90 excluding GST ($1,244 including GST) on 30 October 2024 for the Trans-Tasman Council on Banking Supervision Heads Meeting; $1,900 (GST inclusive, no GST shown) on 9 July 2025 for NAIDOC Week; and $481.81 excluding GST ($530 including GST) on 24 June 2026 for the Australia/Korea Financial Cooperation Forum. The document contains no briefs, costings, modelling or internal advice, and it does not itself explain the purpose of the smoking ceremonies.