Yet another example of Australian Leader of the Opposition’s view that it’s all right when he or the Liberal Party does it but a sin if someone in the Labor Party does the same thing.
The Age 25 April 2013:
Tony Abbott has attacked a government decision to double termination payouts for federal political staff to four weeks' pay, despite having sought more generous arrangements for outgoing Liberal staffers when he became Opposition Leader in 2009.
Correspondence obtained by Fairfax Media from Mr Abbott to the then special minister of state, Joseph Ludwig, shows Mr Abbott asked for eight weeks' ''settling-out'' time for seven staff who had been employed in the private office of Malcolm Turnbull when Mr Abbott replaced him as leader on December 1, 2009.
Asked about the new payout standard on Wednesday, Mr Abbott was scathing. ''This is another sign of the Labor party's contempt for taxpayers,'' he said.
''This is a taxpayer-funded handout to political staffers and, frankly, it's just not on. It shouldn't be happening.''
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