on 08-10-2013 08:19 AM
Am i bit strange to think that if person is doing something for charity or is supposedly volunteering they do it in their own time and at their expense?
Tony Abbott claims to be a friend of Indigenous Australians, regularly spending time in their communities “volunteering”. This is an enormously expensive lie. That is an insult to all the people who really do volunteer and give freely their time.
Read more...http://www.independentaustralia.net/2013/politics/tony-abbotts-costly-indigenous-community-volunteer...
on 08-10-2013 08:29 AM
That hardly seems fair.. my son volunteered to assist in building a school in a remote PNG area..... he had to pay his own plane and helicopter fare... take his own food and supplies, tools etc........... and then trek out again on foot, a days walk.
on 08-10-2013 08:32 AM
he's going to carry this for the rest of his (hopefully) shortened career.
on 08-10-2013 08:57 AM
I 100% agree with anyone claiming expenses of volunteering. It is so hard to get anyone to help these days that I think politicians can lead the way and often encourage others to also volunteer.
As for this direct claim I am happy for this to be paid on my behalf. He is representing the government and showing that as a whole we care for the indigenous people. He has made real changes in those forgotten communities.
Why is everyone only focusing on the LNP claims? I hear that there are lots of labor pollies that also have paid back claims?
on 08-10-2013 09:04 AM
so many lies and so much hypocrisy ...
a person could almost feel that all the promoters of a dodgy product should be held to account too
on 08-10-2013 09:07 AM
"Why is everyone only focusing on the LNP claims? I hear that there are lots of labor pollies that also have paid back claims? "
They are all under scrutiny. But TA is the Prime Minister and should be morally above "not being clear what he is entitled to" and because the LNP battered Slipper out of Parliament for doing what they were all doing. Don't also forget that the money was paid back 7 Years later because he got questioned by journalists, not because he thought he had done the wrong thing.
on 08-10-2013 09:08 AM
so is this about rorting or about bashing Tony Abbott?...... no need to answer!!
on 08-10-2013 09:10 AM
@catmad*2013 wrote:I 100% agree with anyone claiming expenses of volunteering. It is so hard to get anyone to help these days that I think politicians can lead the way and often encourage others to also volunteer.
As for this direct claim I am happy for this to be paid on my behalf. He is representing the government and showing that as a whole we care for the indigenous people. He has made real changes in those forgotten communities.
Why is everyone only focusing on the LNP claims? I hear that there are lots of labor pollies that also have paid back claims?
the claim he and others in the Liberal party also make is that he spends a full week 'volunteering with the community '
being flown around with business men,stopping for a few photos and this done for a few days is not what most consider 'a week' nor volunteering and being with the community .
and a week every year as well suposedly ????
on 08-10-2013 09:14 AM
on 08-10-2013 09:18 AM
@catmad*2013 wrote:so is this about rorting or about bashing Tony Abbott?...... no need to answer!!
both, its his rorting that makes him a target. you may be happy with his excessive claims ,but plenty are not.