The Herald Sun continues with the quality journalism:
TAXPAYERS could pay $13,500 to fly Julia Gillard to Queensland to pay tribute to a party godfather and raise money for Labor with the big end of town.
Ms Gillard, who has shunned the trappings of office and declined to move into The Lodge, was due to fly to Brisbane on a government jet for an ALP fundraiser last night for an exclusive $5500-a-head dinner with business elite.
Operative words in this article are “could” and “was”. Not once in the article does it say she did use tax-payer funds to fly to Brisbane.
But don’t worry, the Liberal party buzzwords were in there:
Led by factional warlord Bill Ludwig, the AWU is the power base of the party’s Right wing, which was instrumental in delivering Ms Gillard the leadership in last week’s unprecedented coup.
“Factional Warlord”: DRINK!
Seriously, it’s like the Herald Sun is just re-printing Liberal Party talking points.
Still waiting for that pay-wall.