Labour are very good people who look after working people like me and my brother and my wife and kids. This lady is stealing from the people who pay her wages by going in a helacoptor a very short way. Me if I did such a stealing thing I would be in the jail I think but she is very big in the Australien government and the cops don't catch her. I think it is wrong what she did $5000 dollars is very lot of money for me and my family so why did she fly at such a cost?

The Libs deleted Abbott's doorstop from the their site on the 15th....but ohno's! it's still urking around the web.

here's what Tony Abbott thinks is appropriate for a Speaker under a cloud:

http://web.archive.org/web/20120511152707/http://liberal.org.au/Latest-News/2012/04/21/Tony-Abbott-Doorstop-Peter-Slipper-MP.aspx

Tony Abbott:

"The Speaker is the guardian of parliamentary standards. The Speakership is one of the most important offices in the Parliament. The Speaker is there to uphold the integrity of the Parliament and now we have very, very serious allegations against the incumbent Speaker, allegations of sexual harassment and allegations of potentially criminal misuse of entitlements. These are very serious allegations indeed. Yes, the Speaker is entitled to the presumption of innocence but he does have quite a lot of explaining to do.

It’s also very important that the Prime Minister act to ensure the integrity of the Parliament. The Speaker is only in that office because the Prime Minister used her numbers late last year to install him. The Prime Minister, to uphold the integrity of the Parliament, needs now to require the Speaker to step down until these matters are resolved. It’s also incumbent upon the Australian Federal Police to swiftly investigate the potentially criminal allegations that have been made against the Speaker.

I can’t underestimate the seriousness of this. The Speaker is required to maintain parliamentary standards and yet there are now these extremely serious allegations against the Speaker himself. So in order to maintain the respect and the reputation of the Parliament, in order to preserve the integrity of the Government and our institutions, it is very important that the Prime Minister act swiftly to require the Speaker to step aside and it’s very important that the Australian Federal Police quickly investigate these matters so that they can be resolved as soon as is humanly possible."

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SM,

I'll see your Gillard jet to a fundraiser - and raise you one Abbott jet to a fundraiser...

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/pm-tony-abbott-flies-on-taxpayer-funded-jet-to-liberal-donors-birthday-bash-at-huntingdale-golf-club/story-fni0fiyv-1227275585102#content

(What is it with Libs and taxpayer-funded frolics to the golf?)

Don't think we ever did find out what his official engagement was : )

Fox,

Once again you deliberately miss the point.

Here, copied for you again,

<Leaving all of that to one side, I don't particularly care who it is, private sector CEO or politician, they can all fall prey to the syndrome where they believe in their own importance and may even regard the organisation's or government's assets as their own. Not implying any of that in respect of the Speaker, where the result of the Labor inspired AFP investigation must be awaited.

Also, most taxpayers, shareholders too, don't really mind if their leaders gain some status benefits to make up for their exhausting, demanding roles that leave little room for a personal life.

They (taxpayers and shareholders) want to see some productivity and quality in return and the politicians who would criticise the Speaker haven't exactly been so helpful in maintaining order, productivity and efficiency in the House either.

Taking Shorten and Labor as the example, they have shown no interest whatsoever in the problems of Struggle-town (ABC), but they are long on same sex marriage and playing the fool in the Parliament. That represents no return whatsoever for the $250,000+pa each gets paid, let alone their other personal overheads (that they aren't talking about).>
[onthebeach, Sunday, 19 July 2015 9:55:52 AM]

and here,

<My concern though is that each and every one of those well remunerated politicians should be producing quality decisions to the value of their Executive level (APS, SES) remuneration and conditions.>

Perhaps you are happy with the childish displays and time-wasting in the federal Parliament but most taxpayers are not and their displeasure will be felt soon enough, in the next election.

Yes, it's certainly not a good look from our illustrious Speaker to indulge in such a public display of political munificence all funded by the wretched taxpayer ? Still I have absolutely no doubt she not the only politician who's engaged in such unconscionable behaviour ? In fact there's probable not a politician of ANY party who's not greedily fed at the public trough, all for their own benefit !

In fact, if we were all to be absolutely honest about it, most of us have sought (and received) a benefit of one sort or another, above that which we're not strictly entitled ?

The only way to stop it, is if the pollies themselves, enact strict measures to prevent ANY benefit from being given as a gift, inducement, bribe or whatever, on penalty of immediate expulsion from parliament, and as a sitting member of that parliament. That is until the next election takes place ! Then it's up to that (former) member's electorate to determine their judgement on that individual !

You can only have one party in power at a time, what exactly would you like Shorten to do.

Lets not say why he should be an alternative govt; There is no election as yet is there.
The coalition would love to know what the Labor camp is working on. Best not to please them.

One thing you can be assured it will not be fictitious like the coalitions last effort and took the people to the polls on a fraud. Lets have some decency please.

Just relax and let the world pass by like Abbott has done for 2 years and spent 100 billion on credit. A great deal of it on something we are not allowed to know about.

With respect POIROT, I do sometimes wonder, if deep down you don't harbour some sort of intensely held affection for our, outwardly, ill at ease Prime Minister ? According to some members of the 'Young Labour Women's League', he does cut a somewhat fetching athletic figure, when he's astride his publically funded surfboard, while bravely riding in mountainous seas off our rugged coastline ?

I'm reliably informed, his 'Close Protection' officers can only watch on, helplessly in vain, apparently not one of them, can hope to keep up with our hyper-active PM !

But that's OK, we all possess some deeply held secrets of our own personal nirvana. Or is it perhaps a case of requited endearment, brought about by a distant enviable 'love-hate' relationship ? Only to immerge when we allow ourselves to submit to 'in vino veritas' ? When all a our defences are impuissant ? And there's no doubt POIROT, you're always been vocally reproachful of Tony ABBOTT in everything he says, he does, in fact his entire existence, I should think ?