Paul1405,
Big Goaf a living treasure ? give us a break !

I am more than reluctant to address individual.
Sorry but you bloke have far too much to say about nothing.
Others will understand, you will not, this is a thread about what many think is quite wrong.
You would be the first in line if it was knocking the ALP.
Too you seem to think this is a thread that aims at every thing in the new government.
As I have said it is about a way of keeping information from us all, more likely found in a Dictator ship or a Communist state.
I have seen your extremely judgmental views and sharp insults and very little else for years.
Yet it is you who stands firmly in your glass house.

People,
Firstly if anyone really wants to know about Billy McMahon then you need to read the satire about him penned by Russel Braddon;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Year_of_the_Angry_Rabbit
Later turned into a movie called "Night of the Lepus"
Some of the original mint condition copies of this in paperback have sold for upwards of $500.
Gough Whitlam protected Lionel Murphy right to the day he died and both of them were as corrupt.
Whitlem was sacked by his mate the GG as payback for the old stud GG planting Mrs W in an IRA safe house in Kirribili with half to old school of Labor stalwarts watching the proceedings hosted my Jim Cairns and Junie Marosi. 1977 or 1978 I recall.

Dear Individual,

When you consider what we pay our Federal pollies
to carry on like petulant children it's easy to see
why so many people become so disillusioned and why
our elected officials rate somewhere between used
car salespeople and crooks on a scale of professional
trust. As someone pointed out on the web - Tony Abbott
achieved the seemingly impossible and sunk lower
than broadcaster Alan Jones when he slipped the old
"died of shame" nugget into a speech during
Question Time. And this from a Member of Parliament
earning about $350,000 a year plus all the perks.

Of course there's the old adage that suggests if you
pay peanuts, you'll find yourself surrounded by monkeys.
As someone pointed out - "Unfortunately the peanuts the
Australian public are feeding the current residents of
the Parliament Zoo costs hundreds of thousands of dollars
per bag. And unfortunately they can't get a refund for 3
years."

cont'd ...

We can only hope that now once they are in government
(with salary increases), their behaviour will either
change appropriately or become sadly become worse as
it did with some in the past.

Dear Chris,

Both major parties have politicians whose actions have
a great deal to answer for. That's why the "Minchin
Protocol" and "Parliamentary Privilege" exist.
I remember reading some time ago the journalist Laurie
Oakes suggesting that some (unnamed) members sat around
Parliament House, "boozing and whingeing." The Privileges
Committee, after 20 hours of discussion, decided with
astonishing logic that his article was a contempt of Parliament
but was not worth occupying the time of the House.

SM,

Here's Tony discussing "towing" back the boats with Steve Price.

http://www.liberal.org.au/latest-news/2011/10/05/tony-abbott-interview-steve-price

(Note, he's quite happy to discuss "towing" - doesn't correct interviewer by inserting "turning")