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Liberals waste money to highlight waste of money

Friday 22 February 2008, 12:53 pm

The Editor

Categories: Politics

Tags: BrendanNelson, KevinRudd, LiberParty, parliament, SteveCiobo

This “waste of taxpayer money” theme that the Libs are running relentlessly at the moment is getting ridiculous. Brendan Nelson has highlighted the amount of taxpayer money spent on having Parliament sit for a day to accuse Kevin Rudd of wasting it by not attending (even though he’s under no real obligation to, as opposed to Alexander’s obligation to attend Question Time.)

Australians are going to spend a million dollars today having the Parliament here… A million dollars is going to spent by hard-working Australian taxpayers, yet we get no Question Time and I think there’s a few questions to be answered.

And here’s how Nelson’s MPs spend a million dollars of taxpayer money.

The first Friday sitting of federal Parliament has led to such chaos that the Speaker suspended the proceedings for a 15-minute cooling off period.

The row erupted when Liberal MP Steve Ciobo moved that there should be a Question Time every Friday, despite the Government’s rules that there will be no Question Times and no divisions taken on Fridays.

It led to the Coalition moving a motion of dissent against House of Representatives speaker Harry Jenkins.

Eventually, Mr Jenkins took the rare step of having him escorted out.

“Because of the gross disorderly conduct of the Member, I ask the sergeant to remove the Member,” Mr Jenkins said.

Mr Jenkins ordered Mr Ciobo out of the chamber for an hour, and later suspended Parliament for 15 minutes.

What a pack of jokers this Liberal mob are.

UPDATE (1.45pm): Can they get any more childish? Of course they can.

Cardboard Rudd

There have been chaotic scenes in the House of Representatives, with Opposition MPs brandishing a cardboard cut-out of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and demanding that the real Mr Rudd show his face.

[…]

Deputy speaker Anna Burke ordered the cardboard figure be removed amid shouts of “we want the Prime Minister here”.

13 Comments

Wah (Friday 22 February 2008, 2:17 pm) #

So it’s OK for Downer to miss parliament and have lunch, but not for Rudd to visit Aboriginal communities.
They’re a rabble.
DB
krypto (Friday 22 February 2008, 2:21 pm) #

ah, I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, I SOOOOO want to be the usher of the Black Rod.
Bron (Friday 22 February 2008, 2:42 pm) #

I seriously doubt Howard would have let his party make a mockery of themselves and Parliament. For all his faults (and there are millions), he wouldn’t have… Anyone disagree? Why?
The Editor (Friday 22 February 2008, 2:44 pm) #

Actually, I’m with you on that, Bron. Good point.
Damian (Friday 22 February 2008, 2:45 pm) #

Absolute fuckwits.
Bron (Friday 22 February 2008, 2:50 pm) #

They’ve been taken off the leash following Howard’s departure. Really, what are they hoping to achieve here?

Fuckwits. Yes. Amusing? Yep! WE LOST AND HOWARD’S GONE AND WE’RE PISSED OFF AND IT’S ALL KEVIN RUDD’S FAULT!

Such petulance. Justifies the voters’ decision to bring Rudd in and kick the Liberals out. Explain that, Bolt, Blair, Akerman, etc etc etc.
EC (Friday 22 February 2008, 6:13 pm) #

Complete utter fuckwits. Imagine them planning their jolly little cardboard cut out caper, fucking pathetic.
krypto (Friday 22 February 2008, 11:09 pm) #

I know, fancy going and actually meeting disadvantaged Australians face to face when he could be spending more time than he was actually required to sitting in PH.
Shame!!! Seriously though, do the Libs actually think they are going to IMPROVE their popuarity or credibility with this kind of spoilt brat tantrum?
It was like the speaker of the house had to send them to their room.
Mikey (Saturday 23 February 2008, 12:22 am) #

Didn’t you just love the Liberal’s thundering denunciation of ‘one million a day! for the extra sitting slot?

Because they never wasted money (cough - workchoices propaganda - cough)
krypto (Saturday 23 February 2008, 1:37 am) #

oh so when someone else is spending a million dollars a day on something that’s bad, but when they spend a million dollars a day on nothing, that’s good?
Bloody hypocrites.
Bruce (Saturday 23 February 2008, 8:53 am) #

I guess 9% just isn’t low enough to keep Nelson happy. Must be some fad diet. “Public approval makes your head fat” or something.

His head will look like a sultana any time now at this rate.
Wah (Saturday 23 February 2008, 2:45 pm) #

One thing the Libs did achieve was taking news bites away from Rudd’s visit to the Aboriginal communities on the hopekessly inadequate TV news bulletins.
krypto (Saturday 23 February 2008, 7:10 pm) #

all the broadcasts I saw Wah, used the Libs bickering into a “…and where was Kevin Rudd” segue in which they showed him talking to people in Walgett.
I reckon they couldn’t have played it better for KR if they were his own publicists.