What about Rudd's incompetence and waste?

He has planned 6 international trips in 6 weeks. His latest trip to indonesia established that to stop the flood of illegal boats we should have another meeting. The PNG meeting was also spectacularly worthless.

The only point of these trips is to get KRudd's face in the paper by stalking every other head of state. This is campaigning at taxpayers expense not governing.

SM,

Slipper was being investigated in response to Ashby's claim in the Federal court. Ashby dropped that claim before the case was heard...and the AFP also found that Slipper had no case to answer on the claims first made by Ashby.

The charges that Slipper now faces are "different" from those first raised by Ashby, but appear to have come from a related investigation.

Yes, Abbott's expense claims were raised in an article on the Drum....but they weren't referred to the AFP...they were handled internally by Finance, which enabled them to be subject of the Minchin Protocol.

Here's a list of some of Tony's expenses, which you claim were in concert with his Ministerial duties.

30/07/09 - Address the National press Club to discuss Battlelines - Flights: Sydney to Canberra return.

3/08/09 - Dymock's Bookstore "Dinner Event" - Flights: Sydney to Melbourne return.

6/08/08 - Liberal party Bookclub Event. Flights: Sydney to Melbourne.

11/08/09 - Appearance at the Brisbane Institute. Flights: Sydney to Brisbane (with stopover in Canberra 12/08/08)

14/08/09 - Event co-sponsored by the West Australian and Dymock's. Flights: Sydney to Perth return.

Read Peta Credlin's letter here, dated 29 Oct, 2010 where she confirms Finance's findings and submits repayment.

And that's without the comcar repayments which he was asked to repay later.

".....I can confirm that travel was related to the promotion of Battlelines on all occasions....."

"...Therefore there are six occasions where [blacked out]costs associated with airline travel to promote Mr Abbott's book."

Note she says these private travel arrangement were "inadvertently" booked as official travel, instead of private.
Booking a minister's private travel is inappropriate for ministerial staff to be doing under the MOP(S) Act.

No wonder bonmot called you Mr Wiggles.....I've rarely seen anyone dance around the facts like you do.

Here's the link to Peta Credlin's letter.

http://nofibs.com.au/2013/07/06/exclusive-abbott-forced-to-repay-taxpayers-9400-he-charged-taxpayers-to-promote-his-book/

I heard on the radio today more of Abbott wanting to can the Gonski initiatives but in the noon report on the ABC he was at a private school in Queensland offering an election promise of $300,000 to fund the heating of their swimming pool.

He really doesn't get it does he.

Dear csteele,

How on earth did he ever become leader of his party?
It will be a very sad commentary on the intelligence
of the Australian public if this man ever gets to
be Prime Minister. I've always assumed Australians
were brighter than the Yanks who elected George W.
I hope I assumed correctly.

Lexi,

I posted this earlier...

Here's how Abbott became the leader of the party.

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-opinion/the-accidental-leader-how-abbott-won-20091205-kbc8.html