Comments on: Keeping the masses outraged

By: Expense wars – Pure Poison

Expense wars – Pure Poison — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:13:54 +0000

[...] at Groupthink, Spock notes that the Herald-Sun seems to be producing outrage from conjecture. And the Daily Telegraph appears to be at it as well [...]

By: john

john — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:13:22 +0000

It’s hard to admit this, but they’re right on the second bit. He is a factional boss, and he and his son were the ones that strongarmed Swann into getting involved on the night of the coup.

By: Spock...

Spock... — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 08:19:02 +0000

That be may be, but ‘faction boss’ would have been fine instead of the highly emotive ‘fictional warlord’

By: Russ

Russ — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 01:31:00 +0000

I would assume this is at least partly to make up for the release of the figures on how much our former MPs cost us in the second half of last year – Howard was the leader with office rent and refurbish coming out at about $250K, and $25K on travel. Brough cost about $35K on travel.