![]() Note however that my time is normally not available uninterrupted for three months, so a fair price is going to be fucking expensive. I don’t care though, feds fucked it up, it’s their fucking problem, and if they need my help, then I’m prepared to negotiate a fair price for my time. Yeah it gets a little bit hazy between state/fed gov as the feds fucked it up but the state (rightly, letting delta rip would not have been any better than locking down) locked me down. People would just laugh at what I had written, but for some reason when the federal government is asleep at the wheel I have a responsibility to my fellow citizen to clean up after them for free. ![]() Like if I crashed my car into someone’s house because I was asleep at the wheel, and then wrote down that the homeowner is responsible for repairing the damage to the house and my car. I’m referring to the fact that the people that write the rules are the same ones that fucked it up and then forced me to fix it for free. It's not people rorting the system, it's just sensible people doing the sensible thing. Options A and B cost the taxpayer exactly the same, but B will be a lot nicer for you, will help you do a better job, and will be building a nice little nest-egg for later. You might even go halvies with another MP so you've got a bit of company when you get home from a hard day at the office. Like most workers who have to travel for work, your employer pays a travel allowance to cover the cost.Ī - spend it on a hotel room, and have to live out of a suitcase every time you're in Canberra, and pack all your stuff every time you go home, and lug that suitcase back and forward between hotel, airport, and home god knows how many times per year.ī - buy an apartment, (using the allowance to pay off the mortgage) and have a place you can settle into, with a proper kitchen, a place to leave your stuff when you're out of Canberra, maybe even a proper home office. ![]() Picture yourself as a newly elected federal MP - you're gong to be spending (hopefully) many years of your life travelling back and forth between your home electorate and Canberra. I honestly don't see anything wrong with MPs claiming travel allowance to stay in a property they own in Canberra. This is the first and probably last time in my life I'll defend Tim Wilson, but. ![]()
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