If you care to look closer to home, then perhaps you'd like to look at Finance Minister for the current NSW Liberal government - Greg Pearce: http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/nsw-finance-minister-greg-pearce-spent-22000-on-taxpayer-f...

 

This relic still has his job and the govt has no plans to remove him.

 

Can I brand all Liberals corrupt now too?

I think the current liberal party could be called corrupt... all of them... cos they're duping people to vote for them blindly, without declaring the austerity harshness they'll implement after the election.

...not to mention TA fraudulent claims:

 

http://www.phonytonyabbott.com/blog/how-the-taxpayer-paid-for-tony-abbott-to-compete-in-surf-races

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@***super_nova*** wrote:

...not to mention TA fraudulent claims:

 

http://www.phonytonyabbott.com/blog/how-the-taxpayer-paid-for-tony-abbott-to-compete-in-surf-races

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They paid for him to go to the footy, cricket and car races too

http://imputeation.blogspot.com.au/2013/07/6-attending-major-sporting-events.html

 

(information from same sources and http://www.aph.gov.au/parliamentary_business/committees/house_of_representatives_committees?url=pmi/...)

*  Poor Tony.  As a point of comparison Joe Hockey declared in his register of interests that he was the guest of Aviation Transport at the Bathurst V8 supercars in 2010 and they covered the cost of his attendence and charter travel.  Hockey seems to have made no claim of public expenses.  It's a shame that Tony had to rely on the Australian taxpayers to fund his V8 experience.  

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@***super_nova*** wrote:

...not to mention TA fraudulent claims:

 

http://www.phonytonyabbott.com/blog/how-the-taxpayer-paid-for-tony-abbott-to-compete-in-surf-races

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And given the hoopla that has been made of his 'volunteering' by the media (and many on here) who concluded that:

 

Abbott + volunteering = all-round-good-Aussie-with-a-great-heart

 

compared to

 

Gillard - volunteering = she-isn't-one-of-us-and-doesn't-care-about-others

...well talk about a slap in the face to that idea lol.