Paul,

I know that you are just trying to divert attention from the ganGREENs wasteful expenditure of taxpayers money. So what did Pissy waters spend $414 000 just doing up her existing office? As you obviously can no justification, the conclusion is that Pissy Waters simply doesn't give a crap about the taxpayer I guess that most voters in Queensland would be happy to see her dumped at sea.

AC,

Even a office that TP attends a couple of days a week if attended by an assistant can be a point of contact where people can bring their concerns. While Paul thinks an occasional fly in visit or stunt as the greens do actually gives the locals any representation he is delusional

Aiden, The Australian Bureau of Statistics refers to both Mt Gambier and Murray Bridge as "Regional Population Centers" does the B of S also get it wrong. I can find no reputable reference, such as the UN, referring to these localities as "cities". Of course you can refer to any location as a city, if you so desire. Hicksville population 3, could qualify as a "city" in some peoples book.

Possibly merely an error on your part.

I do not have a problem with MP's having a second office where warranted. It should be just that, a second office, not some grand Taj Mahal, like this bloke in SA expects. After all he was only elected a lowly backbencher, not the President of the United States. In this day and age of rapid communications, it would be hard to justify that second office at the huge expense Tony Pasin has run up.
A hard working MP like Bob Katter maintains 2 electoral offices at Innisfail and Mt Isa a distance of about 1200Km, apart, 3 times that of Tony Pasin offices. I would rate the work effort of Bob Katter far above that of the other bloke.

Shadow, you are better at "foot in mouth" than the Mad Monk himself, it must be a Liberal thing.

"fly in visit or stunt" which one are you referring to? Bronny's hellishly expensive fly in visit to Geelong, for a party, party, or Barny's stunt of flying into the "city" of Drake (pop 397) to open the local phone box. Have to give it to Barney, he loves a joyride in a helicopter.

From the SMH.

Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce chartered a helicopter to visit an area less than an hour and a half by road from his ministerial office in Armidale.
The flight to Copeton Dam (120km at $4,000) places a question mark over a key plank of the National leader's defence of his helicopter usage, supported on Friday by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, that choppers were used as an alternative to unreasonably long drives.

That's $33 per Km, Barney could have hired a stretched Limo at a cheaper cost to the taxpayer!

Just checked out property prices in Drake City (pop 397) Barney could pick-up a nice little bungalow there for a measly $149,000, no need to fly in, could sleep over. Down in SA Tony Baloney could have got a 3 bedroom house for $170,000 save the taxpayer $330,000 and we could throw in a free bed (king size for the new monarch) just to sleep in one week per year.

Ultimately MP's are doing a public service, so really I think the question of extra offices is a matter for the community that benefits from it themselves.
If there's a genuine need for it, then give the community what they want.

As for the cost, rather than get upset with how they waste money, I'd rather point out the stupidity of our own system of allowing them to make laws for themselves.

I've said this many time before:
If they make the laws for us, we should make the laws for them.
Fix that problem and so many other problems cease to exist.

I'd give them a generic office or a maximum spend amount.
Paul1405 had some good points and ideas.
I think maybe they could benefit from some kind of mobile office as well, work more, spend less and get out into the community where they're supposed to be.

Referundemdrivensocienty,
Sorry if I came across as being harsh, you'll have to get used to that - its the way I roll,
(I don't shy away from giving my honest opinion)
Please don't be offended, you're all more than welcome to give it back when I deserve it.

The regressive GST could be junked altogether and a Tobin tax levied on all transfers of $A into foreign currencies and foreign currencies into $A.

People visiting family abroad could be compensated by a rebate.

The losers would be the players on the currency markets.

A 0.1% rate would provide ample revenue for the government to fund universal access to health care, education, retirement income and the normal services provided by the public sector of the economy.

Another possibility would be to make the rate 1%. That would have the advantage of raising a barrier to international trade, the purpose of which is to scour the world for the worst social, environmental and labour conditions to source goods to bring in duty-free to undermine conditions at home.

Paul,

Having trolled through the minutia on liberal travels, perhaps you could explain why Syphilitic Hansen Young has spent $1m on travel junkets? And I'm still waiting for you to justify the spending of $414 000 for Pissy waters to redecorate her office. Did she use a lot of gold?

As for cities trust you to stuff it up again. A lesson in small words for the ignorant:

There is no fixed definition of a city, and this largely falls to the municipality itself which apparently both Murray Bridge and Mt Gambier do, and have been referred to as such.

For example I'd learnt that a city was >100k people, but in Aus Wagga boldly claims to be the biggest in land city in Aus with a population of 70k.