Professional sport
Michael Brissenden: What about the suggestion from the Labor Party that you appoint an independent auditor to look into this, to take it out of the hands of politicians altogether.
What’s wrong with that?
Eric Abetz: I don’t think too many Australians would be putting up their hand as the auditor of those sorts of things.
Are you kidding? Just because you are not prepared to scrutinise what MPs are doing doesn’t mean nobody else is! I bet there are thousands of people who want to be paid quite a lot of money to tell politicians not to rort their entitlements!
Ragging on MPs who rip off the system is a national sport. Isn’t it about time it turned professional?
“Ragging on MPs who rip off the system is a national sport. Isn’t it about time it turned professional?”
I like this para. Good use of metaphor there…
Perhaps the firm monitoring the ABC could use this as a further golden opportunity.
Nah, its just a bunch of media monitors. We want REAL PROFESSIONALS.
This is one task I would like to entrust to a committee consisting of Yobbo, Jack Strocchi and Dave Ricardo.
YES!