on 21-05-2014 01:31 PM
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”.
on 26-05-2014 11:03 AM
on 26-05-2014 11:06 AM
I read something today about another daughter being made an ambassador for BMW some time before the father decided to purchase a nice new fleet of BMWs for the government.
on 26-05-2014 11:15 AM
@freakiness wrote:I read something today about another daughter being made an ambassador for BMW some time before the father decided to purchase a nice new fleet of BMWs for the government.
reeks of a constructed story
on 26-05-2014 11:26 AM
Hello everyone,
This thread is getting a little off-topic. Could we please discuss the topic, "She must be some might find designer"
Thanks!
26-05-2014 11:33 AM - edited 26-05-2014 11:34 AM
from what I read freaky she(Bridget Abbott) was working for a horse racing carnival for whom BMW was sponsor. Then again, one should not always believe everything one reads.
A 'fleet' of the series 7 BMW's at a purported cost of $525,000 each was made for Fed Govt recently.
.........someone is great at designing.
on 26-05-2014 11:53 AM
@icyfroth wrote:
@freakiness wrote:I read something today about another daughter being made an ambassador for BMW some time before the father decided to purchase a nice new fleet of BMWs for the government.
reeks of a constructed story
How does it?
He did buy the new BMWs, didn't he?
on 26-05-2014 12:06 PM
That recommendation was made in December of last year, according to the Fairfax report, but the contract to supply a fleet of nine high security vehicles has since been awarded to BMW, which didn't bid originally.
on 26-05-2014 02:44 PM
on 26-05-2014 04:07 PM
There are quite a lot of good designers in high places LOL
on 26-05-2014 09:56 PM
You would think regardless who you voted for you could see the hypocrisy in this? But no, we get the same staunch liberals defending this scholarship. For once I would love to read one of them say, yeah probably an error in judgement. And one in particular turns it around and blames the unions for everything,. yawn.