otb,

"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."

Yes, it's interesting. Makes you wonder why "SA Liberal Senator Anne Ruston claimed almost $650,000 in expenses, including more than $420,000 for an office fit out."

And further: ""Unfortunately, due to a lack of suitable premises being available it was necessary to extensively renovate a dilapidated building in Renmark in order for the new electorate office to meet Government standards and regulations, resulting in a significant fit-out cost."

I wonder why she couldn't have chosen the cheaper option of a new build?

What do you reckon, otb?

LOL, another diversion.

You have no idea either of what could have added up to $414,000 and nor does anyone else.

The Courier Mail was balanced in its reporting which was pleasing and as the major newspaper for not only for the capital, Brisbane but for the State of Queensland it was its duty to report on this case which involved a Greens Senator for Queensland.

That is how democracy works. The people of Queenslander have a right and a duty themselves to scrutinise the decisions and performance of their political representatives. You would deny them that right, but so what?

Lol! yerself, otb.

This thread is about pollies and their office refits - or is it the case that we can't discuss such things if the pollie in question is a Liberal - and doesn't go by the name of Larissa Waters?

Why do you reckon Liberal Senator Anne Ruston ran up a more than $420,000 expense for the refit of a dilapidated building instead of going for the cheaper option of a new build?

LOL, yet another diversion and attempted hijacking.

BTT

Here is the original post,
onthebeach, Sunday, 20 April 2014 10:53:30 AM
http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?discussion=6343&page=1

Gov't Study Concludes Ethanol NOT Better
for the Environment than Gasoline

http://www.thedailysheeple.com/govt-study-concludes-ethanol-not-better-for-the-environment-than-gasoline_042014


Remember how we have to pay to subsidize a crap ton of genetically modified corn (yes, not just a ton, but a "crap ton"), because we have to make the supposedly green biofuel ethanol? We are told it is so much better for the environment, right?

The Obama Administration and others claim it's truly a 'clean oil alternative' that will help 'combat climate change', after all.

Well according to a new study — a study our government spent half-a-million dollars on that was just released in a peer-reviewed journal — that is simply untrue, as AP reports:

...biofuels made with corn residue release 7 percent more greenhouse gases in the early years compared with conventional gasoline.

http://intellihub.com/doctors-scientists-immune-error-research-vaccination/?
http://www.blacklistednews.com/False_flag_casting_call%3A_Marines_looking_for_a_few_good_actors_to_play_terrorists_in_training_exercises/34646/0/38/38/Y/M.html
Russian Su -24 scores off against the American "USS Donald Cook"

http://indian.ruvr.ru/2014_04_21/Russian-Su-24-scores-off-against-the-American-USS-Donald-Cook-5786/

Russian Sukhoi Su -24 with the newest jamming complex paralyzed in the Black Sea the most modern American combat management system "Aegis" installed on the destroyer "USS Donald Cook". Pavel Zolotarev, Deputy Director, Institute of USA and Canada, shares details about this version which is being actively discussed in the Russian media and by bloggers.

Why can't the government simply rent or lease existing premises perhaps even the previous members office?
What happens to these places when they vacate them?
Senators seem to be a law unto themselves.