A month since our new Prime Minister took to the stage and the honeymoon has been cut somewhat short. Quite apart from any action the new government has taken, it’s the stench of entitlement and indulgence that now hangs over Canberra.
The expenses ‘scandals’ have attracted a typically Australian ire. We naively like to imagine our politicians as equals, or even our subordinates, not the type to jet around the country on public money.
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Mason McCann is a graduate of political economy at the University of Sydney. Michael Koziol is a reporter for PolitFact Australia and a former editor of Honi Soit at the University of Sydney.
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