The Climate Change and Energy Efficiency Department will move 750 of its bureaucrats into offices in the new building.
Due for completion next year, the NewActon Nishi building includes "electric car charging facilities".
This comes as the Government is also spending $12 million on an advertising campaign for its carbon tax.
Liberal Senator Simon Birmingham yesterday said the Government seemed to have a "repetitive disregard for the value of taxpayers' hard-earned money".
But the department argues its current building is inadequate for accommodating staff and the new building will have the highest energy efficiency rating and reduce costs.
A spokesman for Climate Change Minister Greg Combet said bureaucrats moved into new accommodation under the Coalition government and "there is nothing different here". Read the full report here.
Source: Adelaidenow.com.
