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Talking Politics
- Thread starter Legends of 2017
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KnightersRevenge said:
Good one KR, then again Pauline Hanson has a loudmouth larynx for speaker. ;D
Baloo said:
If you can nominate anyone...hmmmm...let me see...Alan Jones to play the sorting hat? And The PM to be Valdemort, Albo as Seamus, Julia Gillard as Ginny, Sarah Hanson-Young as Hermione, PJ Keating as Dumbledor, Clive as Hagrid, Joel Fitzgibbon as Draco Malfoy, Piers Ackerman as Peter Petigrew, Julie Bishop as Bellatrix Lestrange, Tony Burke and Christopher Pyne as the Weasly Brothers, Malcolm Turnbull as Snape. Oops that was pretty wild tangent.
It will probably go to Mayor Quimbie.
He follows a long line of predecessors.....
Ned Flanders (Kevin Andrews)
Montgomery Burns (Peter Slipper)
Anna Burke (either of Marg Simpson's 2 sisters.
But Krusty speaks my language. He's da man.
He follows a long line of predecessors.....
Ned Flanders (Kevin Andrews)
Montgomery Burns (Peter Slipper)
Anna Burke (either of Marg Simpson's 2 sisters.
But Krusty speaks my language. He's da man.
I'll have to revisit my cast of Simpson's characters.
As the former policeman in charge of Boat Arrivals, maybe he could be Chief Wiggum, but not the Speaker.
As the former policeman in charge of Boat Arrivals, maybe he could be Chief Wiggum, but not the Speaker.
tigertim said:
But perhaps "it's within the rules".
Regardless of party politics or the individuals, it's time the "rules" were changed to reflect on society and the taxpayer.
Too many snouts in the trough.
Get fair dinkum when they say times are tough. Or do they only mean that for the "ordinary" Austaralian?
Too much waste and greed by bloody politicians. In the past the taxpayer has been blindsided to a large extent and the pollies take what's "on offer" and milk it for what it's worth.
Change the rules, change politicians sense of entitlement. If it's time for the general population to suffer a little pain and having to tighten the belt, politicians should be also setting an example or at the very least follow their own expectations of us. Not just think they're immune to scrutiny or above others.
Change the rules and get an independent body (AuditorGeneral?) to do an audit on the whole lot of them. And make them reimburse any money or spending that doesn't pass the "sniff test".
Should be the same as employees car allowances.
Employees have to justify it with the Tax Office.
So give pollies an allowance - then they use their own money for expenses and claim it back on tax.
2c.
Employees have to justify it with the Tax Office.
So give pollies an allowance - then they use their own money for expenses and claim it back on tax.
2c.
I thought there would be a more muted response to Brownwyn Bishop. Not because I want to defend her but because when everyone is doing it to some extent then I was expecting that the pollies on other sides of politics would be worried about opening their own cans of worms.
Maybe some of them should have.
Maybe some of them should have.
tigerman said:
You're quite right tigerman
Not only travel rorting the tax payers but the accommodation allowance needs to be scrutinised.
I read somewhere that Hockey? Was paid accommodation allowance for staying in his wife's apartment while in Canberra.(It may or may not have been Hockey). One of the other MPs got paid an allowance but he was staying with a couple of others (may have been staying with Hockey or some other palooka). Another was renting a garage as accommodation and pocketing the rest. Bloody trough sniffing snouts the lot of them.
They should build a bloody dormitory with separate cubicles and make them stay there.
Too bad they're all experts at fleecing the taxpayer. Too many freebies and perks for them ever to have an honest audit and finding ways and means of saving $millions that could go to the needy, health and education.
