@freshwaterbeach wrote:Surprise, surprise.
What a desperate last minute stunt.
yes and it was done at the very last minute, how will they survive...struggle street for them now.
not.
And as happened last time the coalition did this, they got it all back, with backpay.
well with all of tones expenses and perks will he even notice.....
from Mike Carlton (just because)
The Prime Minister is a bludger. A loaded word, I know, but it is a perfectly good Australian expression and it describes exactly what Tony Abbott was up to as he swanned around from bike ride to fun run at the taxpayers' expense.
He was bludging on us.
The greed and gall are eye-watering. To throw up a few of the more brazen examples: a one-day trip to the 2011 Birdsville races cost us $12,482 in charter flights, he hit us for $9347.12 for another chartered plane to the 2012 Tamworth Country Music Festival, and $5622.73 for yet another private flight to the Bathurst 1000 V8 Supercar races in 2011.
He did manage the 2010 Melbourne Cup a little more cheaply, slumming it with the peasants on a regular airline flight, but with his wife Margaret and daughter Frances in tow that gouged us for $2376.87. We bought the plane tickets for all three.
@nero_wulf wrote:
@alexander*beetle wrote:And as happened last time the coalition did this, they got it all back, with backpay.
When was the last time they did this?
I take it, that it was all OK for RUDD the DUDD to freeze polition wages in 2008
TONY JONES: It's another act of symbolism, this time in the Government's fight against inflation.
Kevin Rudd's slapped a ban on pay rises for MPs and senators for the next year and he's trying to convince big business that it should think about doing the same thing.
of course it was, i remember abbott crying about his mortgage 
anyway I don't think this little stunt by the Looters Party is fooling anyone.....well almost anyone.
i doubt it fools them. its more a matter of loyalty defending these goobers .. i can relate to loyalty. 
