[Wynonie Harris]

So, have our honourable members shown the slightest amount of contrition or regret over the revelations? Not on your life! Excuses, evasions and the blanket statement, "it was in the rules" are all we've had from this greedy lot. The fact is, it was not in the spirit of the rules and a large number of politicians on both sides of the House have simply used their positions to grab as many goodies as they can at the taxpayers' expense.

They are getting angry about something, though...the fact that details have been leaked prematurely to the press. In fact, they're so angry that they're calling the police in. Well, maybe, this would never have happened in the first place if they'd released their full expense details when they were asked to four years ago, or perhaps last year when the High Court ordered them to. The simple fact is that they did not want us, the public, to know just what a bunch of freeloaders they are!