SPQR,

Please get it right Paul 24 anti-ALP or NLP threads, and NONE pro ALP or NLP threads. Only 24 blot! hummmm must be slipping, time to up the ante.

The diversions have come quick and fast as have the attacks on the humble messenger. However as stated before, the Courier Mail is Brisbane's major metropolitan newspaper and it has a duty to inform the public. This is a democracy and the public has a right to know and to question politician who represent them. A Greens Senator is supposed to reperesent all Queenslanders and not just the few Greens who put her there.

The question is very simple indeed, but it continues to defy explanation. Here it is and it really is a mystery that maybe readers of Vogue Living - Vogue Australia are the only ones who can answer it,

"$414,000 to outfit an already plush Paddington executive suite. What did Greens Senator Larissa Waters find was so necessary as to cost that amount of taxpayers' dollars?

There was a trend of certain pollies a while ago to have theme like Egyptian fit-out. That cost an arm and a leg (taxpayer's arm and leg).

What manner of Vogue elegance costs $414,000?"

It is a genuine question.

Dear SPQR,

Sorry, not buying it.

It's one thing to keep banging on about $414,000+
but what about the $650,000+ and the $1 million+
that's being spent by the Libs.
Not a word about any of that - while at the same time
claiming "fairness" (oh and "victimhood") and "diversion"
when being challenged.
Classic!

Foxy,

<<Sorry, not buying it.>>
And, I'm not trying to sell it to you, either! I am fully aware that you do all your shopping at the New Matilda Mega-Waffle super store . And no amount of marketing on my part could win you away from their generically modified, MSG fortified, fully imported merchandise …I’ll just have to wait till one of their brands gives you food poisoning..or makes you grow a third arm.

<<It's one thing to keep banging on about $414,000+ [but what about the Libs] >>
BECAUSE --this is an exposé about the Greens --who Paul assured us were squeaky clean.

It is a really weird sense of equity which mandates that before we examine any (potential) Green misdeeds we have to first examine (potential) misdeeds of everyone else –-weird stuff!

<< while at the same time claiming "fairness" (oh and "victimhood") >>
Who mentioned victimhood? certainly not me. I aware that you have the OLO patient on victimhood and I wouldnt do anything to infringe on your rights--no siree!

Dear SPQR,

New Matilda?

Don't judge others by your narrow standards.

My sources are much broader than just one.

I didn't realize that this was an "expose" about
the Greens - because all that's being offered
is the same single example over and over again.

I guess the News is Limited!

Me a "victim,?"

No. I believe in being a solution.
Victimhood is not my thing.
It's more the author's of this thread.
He sees "victimhood" everywhere.
Capable, generous people do not create victims.
They nurture them.

To get some perspective into this, local builders can construct a quality four bedroom, two bathroom house with all fittings and inclusions in the same suburb for $120,000. Full 'Resort Options', a very high standard of inclusions would add a maximum of $10,000.

However the Greens Senator expended $414,000 to outfit an already plush Paddington executive suite in a feature building.

The computers, conference table, chairs and so on must have cost a bomb.

What else cost the big money? That is the mystery, isn't it?

One might also wonder why Paddington, which is niche with a capital 'N'. Maybe Greens are all highly paid inner city professionals - double income, no kids. Still, that is another question and we are gamely trying to sort the $414,000 at present.

Paddington, for people who are unfamiliar with it,

http://www.cityhobo.com/cities/brisbane/paddington-brisbane-0-5km