Foxy,

When you begin to address issues regarding the
wrong-doings of all political parties instead of just
singling out the Liberal party - I shall believe you.

Paul,

Bishop held ministerial portfolios during the Howard Government, serving as Minister for Defence Industry, Science and Personnel from 1996 to 1998 and as Minister for Aged Care from 1998 to 2001. In October 2014, she surpassed Kathy Sullivan's record for the longest period of parliamentary service by a woman.

That's for starters, far more than Brown, Rhiannon, Milne or SHY. So please stop presenting your ignorant opinions as fact.

Bronnie just told us she came all the way from Queensland to Melbourne to take her helicopter ride to Geelong.

Were there "any" govt commitments on this trip?

Or was the whole itinerary a means to an end to the fundraiser?

More questions - flights, com cars, accommodation.

Of course, Bronnie keeps bleating that it was all "within guidelines", taking time out as the "independent" Speaker during her press conference to slam Bill Shorten and the carbon tax : )

SM,

If I was to link to articles demonstrating Coalition rorts, it would probably take up my whole 8 daily posts in the general section.

What usually happens is they stage a quick press conference or waft through a hospital on their way to the fundraiser so it's "within guidelines".

(Poor old Bronnie slipped up there)

Barnaby hitched a taxpayer-funded lift back to Oz from the Indian Wedding for he and his wife, by staging a one day "study tour" in Malaysia on the way home...producing a "report" which could have just as easily been sourced from Wikipedia.

Here's a good one...

"TONY Abbott has flown to Sydney for a 20-minute press conference on foreign investment during a parliamentary sitting week despite the nation’s political journalists all remaining in Canberra.

The Prime Minister fired up the VIP jet, with its RAAF flight attendants and first class service, for a quick trip to Sydney to unveil the government’s foreign investment options paper along with his Treasurer Joe Hockey."

http://www.news.com.au/national/politics/tony-abbott-uses-vip-jet-to-fly-to-sydney-for-a-20-minute-press-conference-on-foreign-investment/story-fns0jze1-1227238411558

Lol!

Last year Madam Speaker spent $309,000 on overseas
travel including $88,000 on a two week-trip to Europe
in pursuit of a plum job.

Madam Speaker, according to
the Sydney Morning Herald also hosts Liberal Party
fund-raisers in her Parliament House Speaker's suite.

The Speaker's office if meant to be owned by Parliament.
It is not a venue for hire.

The Parliament is not owned
by the government of the day. It is owned by the people and
it is highly inappropriate for the people's home to be used
as a fund-raising arm of a political party. The Speaker is also supposed to be impartial politically.

An Editorial in The Age also states that this woman should depart
the Speaker's chair and why:

http://www.theage.com.au/comment/the-age-editorial/bronwyn-bishop-should-depart-the-speakers-chair-20150717-gieznj.html

Dear Shadow Minister,

I have pointed out things that other political parties
have done wrong in the past and I shall continue to do so.
However, the current government has done the most wrong
to date. And, I therefore feel obliged as a good
citizen to continue to point out their wrong-doings, otherwise
they will simply continue.

What is your excuse for continuing to sledge Labor and the
Greens, neither party is in government - whilst remaining
silent on the wrongs committed by the current government?

Nothing can excuse this hags rorting and disgraceful conduct as speaker.
Resign leaner!

Juliar spent $140 000 on a jet to fly to a labor fund raising event. I take from the dumb silence that everyone here acknowledges that she is a crook?

Everyone keeps on throwing in figures about money spent. The problem is that every single speaker in the past has done pretty much the same. It should be taken as compensation for BB having continually remove the trash from parliament.