What is truly amazing is that the 'fact-checking' ABC has never confronted Labor and their Greens sidekicks with the ANAO report into the administration of Parliamentarians' Entitlements.

It was tabled in the House of Representatives and Senate, 8 September 2009.

Dead silence! NO action! Talk about failing the public and the taxpayer.

As a reminder, Rudd Government 2007–10, Gillard 24 June 2010 – 27 June 2013 and Rudd 27 June 2013 - 18 September 2013.

Bill Shorten and some of his senior colleagues, including some past and present who are alleged abuses of the entitlements, served in the Rudd and Gillard governments.

Parrot,

I see once again that you cannot provide any evidence of achievement under the last labor government.

The 3 FTAs were well underway under Howard, and could have been completed by a half competent government under Krudd or Juliar. However, the problem is that Labor is so beholden by the unions that it will never sign an FTA, and is continuing to show that its commitment to free trade is a sham by opposing the China FTA and the TPP.

The ship building industry is collapsing because Labor getting into power made a huge noise about awarding the Submarine contracts and did bugger all.

As for debt, this is still a hangover from Labor as Juliar spent her last years putting in place legislation that handed out vast sums to everyone without any revenue to support it, and labor and the greens have everything to block the removal of this expenditure. If the coalition got the same revenue that Juliar got, there would be no deficit.

Paul, such lack of wit, your repartee is truly dull. It was a simple question; please list the achievements of Milne SHY or Rhiannon to justify their parasitic infestation of the senate. Their calling of numerous pointless and ineffectual committees to waste money? How much taxpayers money have they guzzled with their noses firmly in the trough.

That you haven't answered is because their achievements consist solely of making noise.

As for Triggs, her last idiotic pronouncement was that the ANZ should apologize for not hiring a convicted armed robber, who had also lied to them about his criminal record. The ANZ respectfully told her to stuff off.

"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery"

Copying someone is flattering because it shows you want to be like that person. Okay Shadow I am flattered by your 'Percy the Parrot' mindless mimicking of what I post, sorry old chap you could never cut it as a Green, you will just have to remain in the extreme right of the Liberal Party with Bronnie and you know who, where you belong.
When I posted the "achievements of Bronnie" question I knew it would put you on the spot, it would send you into a spin furiously Googling. but I knew you would draw a blank, an impossible question to answer, even your source of all knowledge Uncle Rup,s no news "The Daily Telecrap' which you oft take to quoting here would draw a blank for you, because like the idiom "how long is a piece of string", what are the achievements of Bronnie Bishop is impossible to answer, as other than "snouting" (the practice of gobbling up huge amounts of taxpayer money) Bronnie has done diddly squat in her years in parliament, even you would have to admit that.

Paul,

I would never cut it in the greens as I have a brain that rejects the mindless drivel and whining that seems to be the pedogreens modus operandi, nor do I suffer from paranoid schizophrenia that alerts SHY to people following her and forget 1200 dead asylum seekers, or enables Rhiannon to think that the crushing of the democracy movements in Hungary or Czechoslovakia were justified. Finally, I lack the acting training to refine my faux posing skills and permanently concerned expression that SHY has botoxed in place or the nasal whinging schoolmarm voice and demeanor that Milne pulled off.

As for BB, her achievements eclipse anyone in the greens, having blazed the trail for women in parliament, not only winning her seats by wide margins due to her skills in providing services to her electorate, but having acted successfully in more than one ministry particularly as defense minister.

Now Paul, it is up to you to list the achievements of the Green parasites such as LR, SHY and CH. I assume you are ashamed of them as you have failed so far.

SM,

Thanks for the Lols....this govt has been in for nearly two years, has run up the country's debt by a further $100 billion (with little to show for it) and good old Shadow Minister reckons it's all Labor's fault.

Hahahaha!

Not to mention that the architect of it is Eleventy Joe, who interestingly and on topic, chooses to take advantage of the technicality involved in expenses and grabs $271 a night from the taxpayer to pay off his wife's mortgage for every night he spends in Canberra.

That's beside the travel expenses he's used to travel to his farm...ahem...

"TREASURER Joe Hockey made 13 taxpayer-funded trips to sleepy Cairns — the town where he owns a farm — while in opposition.

The revelations come just a week after it emerged speaker Bronwyn Bishop had billed taxpayers $5227 for an 80km flight from Geelong to Melbourne in a luxury helicopter to a Liberal Party fundraiser.

Details of Mr Hockey’s taxpayer-funded entitlements show he travelled to Cairns as shadow treasurer 13 times and on another two occasions while in government — for a bill of more than $20,000."

"Mr Hockey’s office said all his trips were within the rules. It was unclear what the ­purpose of the travel while in opposition was because Mr Hockey’s office was unable to access his official diaries while in opposition last night.

“All expenses have been within the rules and have been signed off in the appropriate manner,’’ a spokesman said."

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/did-joe-hockey-take-trips-to-his-farm-on-the-taxpayer/story-fni0cx12-1227454530768

And this involving Labor and Liberal former members:

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/politician-entitlements-former-mps-high-court-bid-to-boost-allowances-20150807-giuc21

"Fairfax Media can reveal.....four former lower house MPs – Labor's Barry Cunningham, Tony Lamb and Barry Cohen and Liberal John Moore – issued the court with a writ of summons seeking a boost to their already generous post-parliament payments.

The men want to use section 51 of the constitution – made famous in the classic Australian comedy The Castle – to challenge legislative changes the Gillard government made in 2011 and a series of subsequent Remuneration Tribunal decisions that have slightly slowed the growth of their retirement allowances."