rehctub,

I suppose you'd be thrilled if one of your employees spent time promoting their private wares over "your" counter while they were employed by you to be doing their job.

Shadow Minister, rechtub, jump right in, you are swimming in an open septic tank try not to do the butter fly and you may be ok.
OUR media is shameful remember this story came from a conservative puppet not us rechtub.

So as usual, none of you have answered the question.

Why is it ok for the likes of Hawk and Keating to use tax payers funds to write a book, but not Abbott?

After the election Abbott will be asked questions about this.
He will be still thankfully be leader of the opposition and much harder questions will come from the media.
Today in Sydney's papers he is called boatman, and references to his high fiber answer about NBN are being seen now.
After his defeat we are going to see the old Abbott in the media why has it taken so long.

Give it one month it will not be more.
The same media that would not publish this will make a huge story out of it.
This underlines in red ink our media is shameful.
It would not let us read about it but still after it can do no harm will use it.
Lessons?
It need not be true media more and more learns from Gobbles, more and more sells its own lie.