Thursday 29 July 2010

And this is the man that thinks everyone on welfare is a bludger?

The Liberal Party's Tony Abbott has long thought that the average Australian receiving welfare payments is either someone who can't handle money or who is a bit of a bludger on the state (which is part of the reason he is so keen to transform Centrelink cash transfers into digital food stamps and force young people away from family in search of jobs) and currently is trying to paint Federal Labor as careless with the public purse, so it was interesting to see the media disclose the Leader of the Opposition's willingness to do a bit of bludging on the public purse himself:



These are the reported 2009 Battlelines travel accounts submitted by Abbott as Shadow Minister - Official Business:

Tuesday, July 30 - $504.29 Flight to Canberra and return
August 3 to 4 - $930.95 Flight to Melbourne and return
August 6 to 7 - $465.47 x 2 Flight to Melbourne and return
August 11 - $861.95 Flight to Brisbane and return with Canberra overnight stopover
August 14 to 15 - Flight Perth and return $2,461.23
Commonwealth cars and drivers - $962.60


Photograph of Abbott from Google Images

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