Quotation for Today, Wednesday 30 June

“It would have been cheaper for taxpayers if Julia had just sent a donation to Labor’s Petrie Branch from Treasury funds” Senator Ronaldson said.

“Instead, the new Prime Minister has flown up to Brisbane on a RAAF luxury jet, just to pay homage to Bill Ludwig, one of the faceless factional powerbrokers who installed her, and to attend a $40 per head Labor fundraising dinner.

“Ordinary MPs are prohibited from using their entitlements for `party business’, including fundraising. Yet Julia seems to think that she can thumb her nose at such things.”

Senator Ronaldson, the Opposition spokesman on probity issues, said Ms Gillard had wasted thousands of dollars of public money.

How quickly entitlement sets in!

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