NOT only do we have “serving” politicians, that’s a term applied loosely, with their finger in the community cash tin but we now have ex-politicians mounting court cases to have their pensions increased and travel passes and expenses unlimited.
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Let’s face it, many of these so called servants of the people never had an earning potential in the wider community anywhere near their parliamentarians salary and still feel they are entitled to front up to the trough.
To pull travel and allowance rorts back into line with community expectations there needs to be a sunset clause in every politician’s employment contracts setting a timeframe for the cessation of benefits after retiring .
At the moment we have more retired and ex-politicians remaining on the public payroll than we do seat warming in Canberra. It is time this all stopped here and now.
As for playing within the rules been used to defend politicians current behaviour then the time has arrived to recognise that the rules are wrong.
The only person that should travel above cattle class on commercial airlines is the Prime Minister, bearing in mind the RAAF maintains a VIP Squadron for his/her business used 24/7 and other aircraft types suitable for VIP travel to remote areas.
Doug Sutton, Wauchope