Beach good buddy, because no one except you are demanding one.

Since we are putting political parties under the microscope to check their honesty, and since the dishonesty of both the Liberal and Labor Parties has been well exposed. We should now move one and check out a couple of the micro parties, popular with some of the OLO 'Usual Suspects' ie. One Nation and Australia First.

Start with One Nation. Pauline Hanson and David Ettridge, co-founders of One Nation with David Oldfield, were convicted and jailed on fraud charges.

Australia First, headed up by Dr Jim Saleam, Saleam was sentenced to three and half years jail.

These are two of the more popular political parties with some on here as well as right wing political nutters and red necks. They are run by convicted criminals. I ask, would you vote for either of them?

The only party of honesty and integrity, worthy of the support of the Australian people is obviously THE GREENS.

Paul 1405,

All of that stuff is irrelevant to the simple issue here, which is the democratic right of the Queensland public to timely full disclosure. The Courier Mail did what a newspaper should do, it informed its readers of news that was in the interests of its readership. Nothing wrong in any of that. In fact it is all good.

However what isn't good is the apparent lack of response from Greens senator Larissa Waters, who would be aware of the news report from her clipping service, her staff, from her own social media site and probably from her own reading of the major Queensland newspaper.

You want to blame the public and deny them access to information. However you and Greens senator Larissa Waters need to remind yourselves that it is the politicians who are in fact the servants of the people and not the other way around.

Beach,

You keep banging on, demanding a response from the good Senator, obviously you have not read the rubbish in the Murdoch gutter rag. I'll quote for you.
<<Contacted for comment, a spokeswoman for Senator Waters said the fitout was approved by the Department of Finance>>
<<Senator Waters’ spokeswoman said it was a one-off expense for establishing a new office for a first-term senator.>>
Except for you, no one is asking for any further explanation, the gutter rag didn't say it was dissatisfied with the comment supplied, and it so "reported" that comment. There are no reports of any community dissatisfaction in any follow up article from the gutter rag, and frankly none of this was reported in any quality media outlet such as the ABC or Fairfax. The quality media obviously didn;t consider the "story" news worthy.

Beach little buddy, if you are going to bang on about rubbish published in you own acceptable propaganda sheet, at least have the decency to read it first. In that way you will not only avoid misleading us, but you will also avoid misleading yourself. You can now turn off the cracked record, and amuse yourself once more with your favorite pastime,of pulling wings off fly's, or sticking pins in your 'Julia' doll, or both!

Paul 1405,

The news report on Greens senator Larissa Waters' expenditure of $414,000 to re-fit an already pristine office suite is, contrary to what you pretend, of continuing interest to the Queensland public.

Anyone who goes to news story in The Courier Mail (linked to in the first post), will find over 240 comments and many more with a watching brief on the story.

Contrary to what you believe, the public of Queensland have a right to know and it is a very great pity that you and other Greens apparently do not see elected Greens as the servants of the people but rather as a law unto themselves, unaccountable to the electorate that elected them.

Such arrogance is not easily forgotten. The next election is never so far away that a Greens Party that holds the public in contempt will not be held accountable.

Hmmmm.... I wonder if Larissa Waters also bills the tax payer for office stationary?

Of course, we should investigate that fact, particularly because she's a Green.

Every other pollie of every other persuasion uses stationary and charges the tax payer, but we should ignore that because they aren't Larissa Waters and they aren't Green.

Just as in the same vein, office fit-outs should only be questioned if they're undertaken by a pollie who happens to represent a party we don't support.

I think that's fair

Otb is absolutely correct when he says: "...Greens apparently do not see elected Greens as the servants of the people but rather as a law unto themselves, unaccountable to the electorate that elected them."

Goodness me, who do these pixies think they are fitting out their offices and charging tax payers for all manner of goods like Members of other political persuasions.

Eg:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-10-10/green-why-the-expenses-scandal-still-has-legs/5013230

"Department of Finance records also show Mr Abbott has used travel entitlements to take his family to AFL Grand Finals and Derby Day in Victoria. The family trips cost taxpayers more than $10,000."

"A charter flight to the Tamworth Country Music Festival, which Mr Abbott attended with one of his daughters, last year cost $8800."

"Mr Abbott repaid more than $1,000 he claimed for a trip to [Sophie] Mirabella's wedding ... he also repaid more than $600 he claimed to attend [Peter] Slipper's wedding."

"On another occasion in 2010, Mr Abbott claimed $9,400 in travel expenses while promoting his book Battlelines. The money was later repaid by the book's publisher, Melbourne University Press"

http://www.independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/tony-abbotts-costly-indigenous-community-volunteering,5628

"Now, I don’t know about you, but when I volunteer to hammer in a few nails for a day or two I don’t ask the people of Australia to cough up 10 grand. That isn’t volunteering — that is the most expensive labourer in the history of Australia. I wonder what the sandwiches cost?....Three days and nearly $45,000 in flights alone — if that’s volunteering, the rest of us are really doing it all wrong."

Now there's a real servant of the people.....

I'd like $5 for The Kids' Cancer Project for every time Poirot has recycled that same old stuff on yet another thread:

'Blame Abbott.....scraaatch, clunk.....

blame Abbott......scraaatch, clunk.....

blame Abbott......scraaatch, clunk......'

I am absolutely certain all of that and his 'trash Peta Credlin' theme have been thoroughly dealt with sooooooo many times before. So, no need for more of that stuff here.

BTT