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Speaker Peter Slipper and Opposition Leader Tony Abbott had a minor but telling test of wills on Monday, and the Speaker prevailed.
The moment helped identify who, after the first 18 sitting days of the year, was the dominant player in the jockeying for parliamentarty advantage.
It was one of a number of incidents, including Wednesday’s ejection of Wayne Swan, the first Deputy Prime Minister ever to be tossed from the House, which have shown The Slipper seems to have the measure of his charges.
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If MPs want to argue they are worth $185,000 a year base pay they might first explain how Labor’s Craig Thomson spent 42 days overseas on a taxpayer ticket and couldn’t describe what he did in his own words.
He had to crib from the speeches of others – word for word. They might also explain how independent Speaker Peter Slipper, when a Liberal, could go through $7000 on overseas telephone calls using the mobile funded by taxpayers.
All up he spent $14,000 on telecommunications in six months. The man just isn’t that popular.
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Those CEOs & other top managers get their money from the companies they work for. Mostly extremely well-managed, VERY profitable companies. If one of those companies goes to the wall so do those top executives. OK, they have lots in the bank so that doesn’t really matter. Our politicians are… Read more »
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