Cigars, wine, flight upgrades and live pigs among gifts to politicians

By Heath Aston
Updated January 29 2016 - 9:08pm, first published 8:57pm
Joe Hockey enjoys a cigar with Mathias Cormann before the 2014 budget was announced.
Joe Hockey enjoys a cigar with Mathias Cormann before the 2014 budget was announced.
Treasurer Scott Morrison does his Taylor Swift 'shake it off' dance move ahead of a morning radio interview last year. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen
Treasurer Scott Morrison does his Taylor Swift 'shake it off' dance move ahead of a morning radio interview last year. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen

They're the product that launched a thousand cartoons of Joe Hockey before his career as treasurer went up in smoke and came to symbolise how out of touch the Abbott government was with mainstream Australia.

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