Not only adults, Poiret, but led by a Suppository of Wisdom as well!

Shame his knuckles drag on the ground though.

A $200,000 travel rort for Poirot, who is the forum expert on such things,

<Taxpayers slugged $200,000 to fly MPs to Canberra for ALP leadership meetings

TAXPAYERS will fork out up to $200,000 to fly Labor MPs to Canberra so they can vote for a new parliamentary leader.

As the Opposition ramps up its attack on Tony Abbott over entitlements, News Corp can reveal the public will pay a high price for the ALP's bold leadership experiment.

And several Labor MPs have expressed disgust at the expense of flying around 80 Caucus members to the national capital - for two separate meetings within the space of a few days.

With some business class airfares costing around $5,000, Labor MPs will firstly fly to Canberra on Thursday where they will vote in a leadership ballot for Anthony Albanese or Bill Shorten.

They will then return to parliament on Sunday where the winner will be announced. Labor's new frontbench will then be elected by the Caucus on Monday.

ALP national secretary George Wright confirmed the Labor Party will not be footing the bill to fly MPs back to Canberra for the first time since the September 7 election.

Instead the public will pay for flights, Comcar and other expenses. Opposition MPs will also be entitled to claim $268 in travel allowance if they stay overnight, adding to the cost of Labor's leadership experiment.>

http://www.news.com.au/national-news/taxpayers-slugged-200000-to-fly-mps-to-canberra-for-alp-leadership-meetings/story-fncynjr2-1226735036208

Labor business, labor cost. It shouldn't even be possible for them to claim this.

´The results of our poll on the Labor leadership should buoy Anthony Albanese, not only is he overwhelmingly the preferred ALP leader by a significant margin, but he comes with some of the most positive ratings that I have seen for a politician."

Graham, how many did you poll? How 'reliable' are your polls?

$200,000 is a slug that taxpayers should not have to bear. It could be avoided by having the leadership meeting when the Labor pollies return to Canberra for the next session of parliament.

Leadership ballot cost have been covered by the tax payer in the past how is the current agreements any different, another news corp/lib beat up/smoke screen.

I'm sure the Labour party would foot the bill of their ballot if the Libs agree to do so as well. Should be a spill coming soon.

Shorten is a care taker leader while Labor sorts out the mess. I think they'll expect to lose the next election and plan to win the following one with a more credible leader.

In the meanwhile the rest of us are looking for honest alternate parties to the two present corporate controlled ones.