Australian Politics thread [merged]

[No More]

they have even put a stop to their own members using tax payer money to fly a helicopter to a party fund-raising event 

Now all we need is for them to put a stop to the socialist healthacre rort called medicare

I like Medicare 

[Stalin]

they have even put a stop to their own members using tax payer money to fly a helicopter to a party fund-raising event 

Now all we need is for them to put a stop to the socialist healthacre rort called medicare

I like Medicare 

Dyke, pinko, soviet bastard 

[Francois Jackson]

Tony Burke   

[Smokey]

Tony Burke   

Symbolic of why politics and politicians in this country are untrustworthy and unfit to govern, regardless of the team jumper they wear.

[Francois Jackson]

A detailed one of my own or just a glib one line statement with a laughing emoticon preceding a copy 'n paste of someone else's
opinion? If it's the former then it's bit rich for you to ask more from others than you're seemingly ever willing to offer up yourself.

  true

Keen to hear his thoughts on labor MP Burke or are we still just  talking about bishop.

[mightytiges]

Tony Burke   

Symbolic of why politics and politicians in this country are untrustworthy and unfit to govern, regardless of the team jumper they wear.

Spot on Smokey. The fact they've agreed behind close doors to not go after each other over this shows they've all got their snouts as well as their trotters in trough from the PM, Opp. leader down to the backbenchers. It's a rort.

[WilliamPowell]

Tony Burke   

Symbolic of why politics and politicians in this country are untrustworthy and unfit to govern, regardless of the team jumper they wear.

Spot on Smokey. The fact they've agreed behind close doors to not go after each other over this shows they've all got their snouts as well as their trotters in trough from the PM, Opp. leader down to the backbenchers. It's a rort.

Exactly!

Trying to score political points over this issue is pointless. They all do it

The age of entitlement being over clearly doesn't to our pollies

[Francois Jackson]

http://m.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/tony-burke-spent-54000-on-lavish-parties-in-just-six-weeks-as-labor-arts-minister/story-fni0cx12-1227473378567

65 gone all quiet all of a sudden.

Smokey right on the money and 65 next time don't be a Burke and be quick to jump the gun. What a fool he looks like now

[Penelope]

on this subject shorten said it wasnt a system issue,but an individual one 

now abbot is defending politicians "right" to spend tax payers money on shipping their families with them 

these greedy, self indulgent stuffers all have their snouts in the same silver lined trough and are so far out of touch with the people they are supposed to represent, they may as well be on the voyager space probe.

Viva La Revolution!!!!

[1965]

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-08-08/pyne-claimed-5000-travel-allowance-to-fly-family-to-sydney/6682494

Public documents confirm Education Minister Christopher Pyne spent more than $5,000 of taxpayers' money flying himself and three family members to Sydney over the Christmas-New Year break in 2009.

Department of Finance documents show that on Christmas Day in 2009 Mr Pyne and three family members flew from his home city of Adelaide to Sydney.

Each airfare cost $1,200 and the family returned on New Year's Day.

During the period Mr Pyne also spent almost $1,000 on Commonwealth cars and claimed two nights of travel allowance, worth $240.

[1965]

Exactly!

Trying to score political points over this issue is pointless. They all do it

The age of entitlement being over clearly doesn't to our pollies

All a pack of bastards.

Abbott is just the most useless one.

 

[1965]

http://m.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/tony-burke-spent-54000-on-lavish-parties-in-just-six-weeks-as-labor-arts-minister/story-fni0cx12-1227473378567

65 gone all quiet all of a sudden.

Smokey right on the money and 65 next time don't be a Burke and be quick to jump the gun. What a fool he looks like now

Been busy shifting.

Glad it's over.

 

[dwaino]

All these travel rorts yet they're always quick to scrutinise my log book when I lodge a tax return.

[Penelope]

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-08-08/pyne-claimed-5000-travel-allowance-to-fly-family-to-sydney/6682494

Public documents confirm Education Minister Christopher Pyne spent more than $5,000 of taxpayers' money flying himself and three family members to Sydney over the Christmas-New Year break in 2009.

Department of Finance documents show that on Christmas Day in 2009 Mr Pyne and three family members flew from his home city of Adelaide to Sydney.

Each airfare cost $1,200 and the family returned on New Year's Day.

this is what i heard abbot defending today. sickening really. they all should be lined up against the wall and then we start again

All these travel rorts yet they're always quick to scrutinise my log book when I lodge a tax return.

and this aint half of it. their lackey scum in the tax department do their best to ensure the little man bares the brunt of burden to finance their decadent ways.

[dwaino]

I have a good accountant now and he has shown me where to take advantage of the grey areas. Old man has done the same with disability. Paid tax all his life then they want to shaft him while they can fly their families around the world for Christmas. Nothing illegal, just getting back as of what was originally ours as possible. Unlike my brother who actually supplements his income criminally but that's a different story.