She must be some might fine designer

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http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/21/tony-abbotts-daughter-did-not-have-to-pay-for-60000-des...

Tony Abbott’s daughter Frances received a “chairman’s scholarship” for a degree costing more than $60,000 from the Whitehouse Institute of Design where an Abbott donor sits as chairman on the board of governors, Guardian Australia can reveal.

The revelation raises questions for the prime minister over whether the scholarship should have been declared on his interests register.

The Coalition government is also under pressure over changes to higher education funding announced in the budget.

Frances Abbott undertook a bachelor of design at the Whitehouse Institute of Design in Sydney from 2011 to 2013. Guardian Australia has confirmed that she received a scholarship during her time at the institute.

“Frances definitely was a student with us and received a chairman’s scholarship,” Leanne Whitehouse, director of the Institute told Guardian Australia. She declined to detail how many times the “chairman’s scholarship” has been awarded previously, but the institute’s website makes no references to the scholarship and states the institute “does not currently offer scholarships to gain a place into the Bachelor of Design”.

[i-need-a-martini]

None of what you have written has anything to do with the topic.

[freddie*rooster]

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@azureline** wrote:

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@freddie*rooster wrote:

It's just because Julia is a ranga, people pick on ranga's *cries a little bit*

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there there.... ♥

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Thanks Az *wipes eye's*

[cherry*135]

You still don't get the issue monman.

Julia Gillard references are totally irrelevant also.

"Australian Parliament’s Registrar of Members’ Interests, Claressa Surtees.

Ms Surtees said that the ‘Resolution of the House’ – the rules governing disclosure of members’ interests – does not make a distinction between gifts, scholarships and awards based on merit."

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The register of interests doesn't include any mention of scholarships.

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@monman12 wrote:

Breaking news:
2013,   The University of Adelaide will receive Federal  Government grant of  $60 million for the medical school
2013     Former Prime Minister Julia Gillard has accepted an honorary Visiting Professorship from the University of Adelaide.

Prof Poor Me ?

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Gee, desperate or what?

Comparing funds to a university medical school to a fashion course at a private college.

And what has Julia Gillard to answer for?  Is she not qualified to work at a uni?

Would you mind calling the woman by her name instead of the abusive and insulting Poor Me slogan you apply without cause.

[cherry*135]

"Prime Minister Abbott’s failure to record the scholarship in his register of interests sits at odds with what appears to be an enthusiasm for recording benefits received by himself and his family.

Many of the entries are seemingly benign, including the declaration of a “modest one-off sum” earned by his daughter Bridget, “for her part-time work as an Ambassador for the Sydney Autumn Racing Carnival”.

In other declarations Mr Abbott discloses attending charity occasions and major sporting events with his family.

“My wife and daughters, Frances and Bridget, attended the Australian premier of ‘The Great Gatsby’ in Sydney on Wednesday 22 May 2013 as guests of Village Roadshow,” a declaration from June 5, 2013 records.

In another declaration, from March 2013, Mr Abbott even discloses that his daughters Frances and Bridget accompanied him to a Myer fashion launch in Melbourne, even though they paid their own travel and accommodation costs.

Yet nowhere in Mr Abbott’s disclosures does he mention the $60,000 scholarship awarded to daughter Frances."

[monman12]

"None of what you have written has anything to do with the topic." Neither INAM  does what The Guardian has written have anything to do with a requirement for  a scholarship  awarded to Abbotts daughter a few years ago to be entered in the Pecuniary Interest Register,  but that does not  deter the media outlet from doing so and like coloured acolytes applauding.

"Yet nowhere in Mr Abbott’s disclosures does he mention the $60,000 scholarship awarded to daughter Frances.""

And why should he when there is no requirement to so do? Where are the baying ALP members?

 Read:   http://www.aph.gov.au/Senators_and_Members/Members/Register

So far the exercise  is the Guardian  digging up some  family history (children normally off limits) , and  attempting to  cover its  (sordid) attempts by saying it is being publicly  spirit minded. The Guardian, right !!,  pink myopics right again !!

Where exactly would  a "Register" conflict of exist have existed  then, and now? The Guardian is reticent on that point.

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Which ever way you want to look at it it is bad form for a person in his position to take that advantage. 

[cherry*135]

See above.

Example: In another declaration, from March 2013, Mr Abbott even discloses that his daughters Frances and Bridget accompanied him to a Myer fashion launch in Melbourne, even though they paid their own travel and accommodation costs.

Voluntary discloses that, but not a suss 60 000 'scholarship given to his daighter.

[crystal**flake]

Can anyone really say they wouldn't give their kids a leg up if they were in the position to?