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The age of entitlement is over. Apparently!

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Dear Rehctub,

Let us all hope that something good will come out
of this mess - and that genuine reforms within the
entitlements system will take place for everyone's
benefit.

We have a New Speaker elected to the House of Representatives,
Tony Smith. Let us all wish him well and trust that he will
be fair and will do a good job - elevating Parliament and
especially Question Time to the high standard that we as voters
should receive.
Posted by Foxy, Monday, 10 August 2015 10:42:54 AM
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"so would we just get second-rate people putting their hands up to be a politician if we didn't have some sort of incentive"

And our Pollies are not second-rate?
Posted by Robert LePage, Monday, 10 August 2015 11:11:35 AM
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*they do not seem to have accused Tony Abbott of rorting
the entitlements.*

Try this link.

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/abbott-forced-to-repay-travel-expenses-20130707-2pk9b.html
Posted by Robert LePage, Monday, 10 August 2015 11:15:27 AM
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Fox, "elevating Parliament and especially Question Time to the high standard that we as voters should receive"

That would require a change in tactics and behaviour of the Opposition. Maybe Shorten could find some policies too, which would be a shock to the critical (of Shorten's lapse) Labor Party faithfull.

You and Paul1405 have more front than a Greyhound tourist bus and so does L'il Willie Shorten aka 'Whatever She Says' and his 'Handbag Hit Squad' and those seat polishing Greens Senators, all left over from the Rudd and Gillard then Rudd again governments (with Greens sidekicks).

As advised in reply to Paul1405 in another thread on the subject, it is an indisputable fact, reference the Parliamentary Hansard (Representatives and Senate), that the Labor governments of Rudd and Gillard (+treacherous Greens sidekicks) protected a system that had not only been advised to the Parliament and the Senate by the independent ANAO and the administering department as being an open door to rorting, but there were examples of rorting before them and topical, being discussed in the Parliament and media.

However nothing was done, which leaves the inescapable conclusion that the wide open door was convenient to Labor and their treacherous sidekicks, the Greens. However Greens Leader Bob Brown and the Greens senators who were polishing the Senate seats were always up for endless motions on gay issues. Shorten and Labor have also become conveniently obsessed with gay marriage (forget the Struggle Streets and politicians' entitlements). Coincidentally Bob Brown and other Greens directly benefited out of that, and they preserved that other interest, the wide open door to politicians' entitlements.

to be continued..
Posted by onthebeach, Monday, 10 August 2015 11:22:57 AM
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continued..

It is only now that Tony Abbott has taken the initiative to champion a review that the opportunist, headline-hunting Greens have stirred in their comfy Senate seats to make a suggestion to copy some other jurisdiction. Not much thought in that from the Greens, but it might delay things and provide some 'necessary' study trips abroad to have a gander (mainly at the top-ranked tourist spots!).

Then as per usual, it is back to their gay marriage obsession and disrupting Parliamentary business for the Greens and Labor! What cynical hypocrites, add lazy and that is both lots of highly expensive, non-productive, pear-shaped, seat-polishing pollies to a tee.

-Not that the Opposition are the only politicians (include bureaucrat heads of those qangos and guvvy agencies too) solely consumed with personal benefit where entitlements are concerned. However the whining Left are forever claiming the high moral ground, but constantly failing to deliver. Personal benefit and ambition sure beat principle and ethics every time!

What about the absence of the public-funded national broadcaster, the 'fact-checking'(sic) ABC that has led the tabloids in acting as tabloids, all wrinkled brows and 'gotcha' hack journalism? The ABC that is forever spruiking for 'progressive' gay marriage (was there ever a Q&A where gay wasn't discussed and if not mentioned soon enough the host Tony Jones made sure it was!),

but somehow, some way,

'that' ANAO Report critical (diplomatically of course) of the 'Open Door' and 'Open Slather' that is politicians' entitlements was never subjected to any real scrutiny"?

Of course there were left-leaning 'Progressive' Labor governments ensconced in Canberra at the time, Rudd->Gillard->Rudd and mighty travellers all, but that wouldn't have prevented the 'fact-finding'(LOL) ABC now would it?
Posted by onthebeach, Monday, 10 August 2015 11:36:11 AM
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otb,

In accordance with your assertion that it's Labor and Greens who are responsible for the continued abuse of entitlements - could you enlighten us as to why it's the Coalition who are consistently front and centre in the snouting trough?
Posted by Poirot, Monday, 10 August 2015 11:56:17 AM
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