Another year, another polly on the ropes over expense claims. Sussan Ley has been on the receiving end of a media pommeling and the collective wisdom is she’s been a naughty minister. She has been dispatched to Coventry and the view is she should settle down and grow accustomed to her new home.
As an observer of various entitlements farragoes over the years, I think Ms Leys’ spending puts her in exalted company, somewhere between Peter Slipper and the guv’nor, Labor’s Mal Colston. Spending $21,000 in a week or so on transport is extraordinary. I didn’t even think it was possible. With those frequent flyer miles, you can forget about the carrot sticks and chardy in the Qantas club. It’s foot-long lobster subs and Moët by the schooner. Hell, they’ll get you your own plane. Maybe even let you fly it.
The Minchin Protocol always sounded like a bad novel and now as it comes to its denouement, it is about as satisfying as an EH Holden Mechanics’ manual or anything knocked out by Clementine Ford.
Full column here.
Milton 1:19AM 19th
On reflection I may have been hasty in my reply. Memories do strange things to a man. I do suddenly have a strange yearning to revisit my roots.
Can you squeal like a pig boy?
Rodent 8-47PM
Sounds a bit like “We have to destroy the village in order to save it” logic to me.
Yvonne 4:42PM
Moi! I’m certainly not the one of those erudite characters, Kathy or Mr Snott. I hope they are not too offended or hurt that you should suggest such a thing.
And lay off our Nick! He is the one interesting thing about that racket called tennis.
Penny 11:10AM
Yes we have great minds. Looks can be deceptive but I reckon that banjo player would be a lot more politically savvy than Rodent.
Give ’em heaps.
No. I’m not laying off Nick. JB. He’s an arrogant little prick. To be booed off your home court says it all.
He has enormous talent but will be the master of his own destruction. Tennis will do just fine without him
Tennis is not his game – I really think he will love the razz matazz of basketball -in the USA – not here please God.
Jean Baptiste (7.48am & 1.11pm 19/1)
Says:
“Excellent sentiment, doesn’t reconcile with your haughty fatalistic dismissal of the plight of the world’s poorest does it.” and
“Because things were worse hundreds of years ago is your excuse for turning your face away?”
I note you seem to be having some difficulty in deciphering/comprehending some of my recent posts JB, as your comments above testify. This appears to have led you to develop some fairly firm erroneous assumptions directed at my persona. They are well shy of the mark and this surprises me because I had up until now considered you to be the master of the cryptic and the humour.
Despite your occasional oblique references on Jack’s blog to all the ‘have nots’ of this world, you don’t appear to have indicated what you are actually doing to alleviate some of their plight. I hasten to add, it is none of my business and I wouldn’t be so presumptuous as to enquire or to judge.
Likewise, you don’t have a clue as to my personal situation in this regard. However, as you appear to have somehow formed quite a negative view, I feel some compunction to let you know that I have signed on as a life-long carer. I have eschewed for many years what others may regard as a “comfortable lifestyle” and I believe I’m now altruistic to the point of being quite satisfied with attempting to assist others who carry a greater burden than my own, including animals.
The occasional semi-traumatic personal experience pops up now and then which may account for the odd out-of-order utterance I post on here from time to time. It is not done with malice, but perhaps a lack of forethought. A flimsy excuse, I know. But there you have it. Take it or leave it.
Acrimony can have a corrosive effect JB, so I trust we may be able to get back to more congenial exchanges in the future me old mate.
Best wishes
Gladys Berejiklian has put up her had to be Premier of NSW.
That should test our multi-cultural society.
Gladys is of Armenian background – a very close ethnic group. One of the first things that the Liberal party did when they came to power was to declare the slaughter of Armenian by the Turks in WW1 as genocide. One can imagine that she had a hand in it.
It was just before the anniversary of Gallipoli in 1915. The Turkish government went ballistic and in theory stopped all NSW government representation at the celebrations.
The ABC wrote “Ms Berejiklian is the daughter of Armenian migrants and a granddaughter of victims of the 1915 Armenian genocide.”
How all this pans out in the melting pot of Western Sydney is going to be interesting.
Yes, good luck to her. Probably just the reset the govt needed in NSW. She handled the transport portfolio extremely well. Not in the treasurer’s seat long enough to draw any conclusions but she is well respected by colleagues and her opposites alike.
O8 :29pm ,…Sorry ladies and gentlemen on name with an ” h” found its way in there while I was watching the cricket Australia
vs Pakistan while typing same time . And not on the bottle or the Mary J ,..also .
If your not angry on Ex Pms entitlements like those at the time when this was released just after Kevin Dudd voted out, well you will now after this circulation from the Simon Benson Murdock Press . I can see the bitching will follow from the few here that they are bias. Well fellows ..” get over it”!
First ,… The last 7 PMs counting the Rudd government when finished with the late Gough and Malcom being alive , 5 were Labor ,two were Libs . John Howard topped the highest entitlements in dollar terms with all freebies as did the rest of them being 11 years in office , Julia Gillard and K Rudd each 3 years that being 3 PMs in 6 years compared Howard 11years straight .
Labor come out on top as the most expensive by 2.2 billion per year when all 7 were alive . This includes all office supplies VIP trips ,overseas junkets domestic travel accomodation etc . I am not scared naming my media while frustrated not keeping this at the time . I can still see the anger on blogs at the time after earlier politicians caught out .
Can someone tell Dismayed that volleys are back in fashion, big time. So well done, Milton! Good to see you out there with the young and beautiful.
HAHAHAHA and you claim to keep yourself informed. Volleys NEVER went out of fashion. I was referring to an advert this week that you and your cons find rude. Move along. This volley might knock you off centre court.
A pleasure to watch young Gavrilova win her match tonight. Now that’s how to play the game.! Determination and fight to the end.
I reckon Nike should consider taking its sponsorship off Kyrgios . Not a very good product image. In this instance bad publicity is just plain bad publicity. Nothing to be gained at all from hanging clothes on the brat.
hey guess what?… doomed again
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a52378/trump-appointees/
Wraith 12:21pm .
Yes you call it correct with evil still lurking and will not improve with the men in that culture have evil in their blood .
The kids locked into war no where to go, crying on top of rubble while Allah calls the shots to fight on.
Cheers.