The ridiculous “Choppergate 1” seen the pompous Bronwyn Bishop resign after blowing $5000 of taxpayer’s money on a quick helicopter flight to Geelong Victoria population 235,000. Now it’s the turn of the National’s Barnaby Joyce to stick his snout into the taxpayer’s trough and blow $4,000 on a quick helicopter flight to the sleepy little New South Wales village of Drake, population about 400. What was so pressing that Joyce had to blow $4,000 on a helicopter ride to nowhere, Joyce had to open the new villages phone tower! At least it was not opening a new water tank or some such rot, it was a phone tower, not much happens in Drake these days it would seem, except Barney blows in now and then to say G'day and vote for me. Despite new guide lines being put in place after Bishop’s little escapade, Joyce does the very same thing!
Bishop flight only cost about 2 cents per resident visited, Barney's flight cost us taxpayers 10 bucks for each person in the little village of Drake, all 400 of them.
Should Barnaby Joyce resign over this, I say yes. Bad for the goose, bad for the gander

However the Greens don't think there is anything wrong where one of their own spends a huge wad of taxpayers' dollars on an already pristine executive office in a niche, expensive 'burb, when there were plenty of far cheaper offices only hundreds of metres away.

"Queensland Greens Senator Larissa Waters spent $414,000 on fitout for Paddington office

GREENS Senator Larissa Waters spent a whopping $414,000 to fit out her trendy Paddington office – more than any of her Queensland political colleagues at the time.

The office, on the top floor of a pristine-condition, split-level building on Given Tce, includes a rooftop patio with timber outdoor furniture and artificial turf."
http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/queensland-greens-senator-larissa-waters-spent-414000-on-fitout-for-paddington-office/story-fnihsrf2-1226889449998

Got to be with the Trendies, the Hipsters who are the elite running the Greens.

It's been explained several times in the media. Nothing like Bishop. Joyce was on official business in his electorate. It would have taken him 9 hours driving to and from Drake. There is no airstrip there,so he took a helicopter. Do you really expect the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for agriculture to drive for 9 hours to inspect a bridge the locals want repaired, visit a school and open a telecommunications tower? The whole thing was a beat up given to the media by a left/Green artist and the media fell for it without checking, as usual. Good try, but it's a load of rubbish.

What's happening on the main spot? Yesterday's articles are still there.

The greens become more disgusting & irrelevant by the day.

otb,

"However the Greens don't think there is anything wrong where one of their own spends a huge wad of taxpayers' dollars on an already pristine executive office in a niche, expensive 'burb, when there were plenty of far cheaper offices only hundreds of metres away."

Lol!...is that still the only thing you've got?

How sad....

Notwithstanding that the Dept of Finance is responsible for outfitting and the spend, the Greens and Labor could never hope to match the Coalition for their ability to spend taxpayer's dollars willy-nilly.