Ministerial travel costs
AN INTERESTING subject ministerial travel and expenses.
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One might ask why ministers should travel all over the place when they have the local member on site.
People who should be able to give them adequate advice as to the wants and needs of their local communities.
People who could, except in very unusual circumstances, deputise for the ministers.
A minister in his office attending to the business of his ministry might be better employed than a minister at a football game and a much wider circle of people would benefit from contact with their local member.
That name on a party circular that one only generally sees before any election but rarely meets or hears of, at any other time.
It is time that members of Australia's most exclusive clubs - our parliaments - got back in contact with the people they claim to represent.
It is time for the party line to reflect the will of the people.
It is time for policies to reflect that will avoiding the assumptions of deaf ears so far removed from everyday life that our needs are being increasingly forgotten.
Len Langan, Longford.
Entitlements
DESPITE the recommendations of Bishopgate, we see the results with despair.
This is a perfect example of the contempt the political elite hold us in as they believe that if they don’t mention or implement the recommendations, eventually we will forget all about it and it will be business as usual.
When social security is looking so closely at policy and individuals or minority groups and claiming the moral high ground, one must ask one’s self why there are so many grey areas within the MPs funding policies to manipulate?
The last thing that the cartel wants to do is pull the curtain back on Oz as they believe since they left their private schools and free university educations and joined their insider star chambers, that they are entitled to the spoils of their station.
Most of us have never travelled first-class or frequent polo matches.