Paul,

".....They were at the wedding of WA Liberal MP Steve Irons at taxpayers expense."

Steve Irons......

http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/breaking/19291888/wa-liberal-pays-back-expenses/

"WA Federal Liberal MP Steve Irons was forced to repay almost $11,000 in wrongly claimed airfares and car transport fees this year.

Details of the repayments came as Prime Minister Tony Abbott admitted he was forced to repay taxpayer cash he claimed for travel to weddings of two coalition MPs in 2006, including to the nuptials of embattled former speaker Peter Slipper.

Documents obtained by The West Australian under Freedom of Information laws show Mr Irons repaid $10,863 in domestic flights and Cabcharge payments."

BTT

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"Bill Shorten wants quotas to boost number of gay politicians in Parliament"

further to that "He says the party should consider quotas for Indigenous Australians and the lesbian, gay, bixsexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) community."

Is this the start of a new POLITICALLY CORRECT push by Shorten, if it is I think it will backfire.
Posted by Philip S, Saturday, 28 September 2013 11:13:24 PM>

How did the two Labor leadership hopefuls finally front up on that? Noting too that the Labor machine didn't consider adding the same question in that ballot. Hey, no sense in directly consulting the membership on major policy, it is extreme allowing them a 50:50 with the dark horses in caucus in picking a leader.