Federal Government

Abolish the so called entitlement 

"Family Travel Costs"

A "snouts in trough" benefit that must go

Have you seen the numbers? 

The spending habits of our Federal Politicians..!!!

 for the 6 month to 30 June 2015?

There is one benefit, it’s called "Family Travel Cost" which allows politicians to have their family travel around the country in business class at no cost to them.

 This is paid for by you and me.

I want this Entitlement abolished and the politicians are the only ones that can get rid of it - You guessed right - they have no interest in giving this away. Pity they can’t lead by example and do the right thing - be a true statesman. They are supposed to be there to serve and do the right thing for our country but it seems it is lost on most of them. We have a growing deficit in Australia and we are told that there must be cost cutting and belt tightening.

Again I suggest you could lead by example, abolish the "Family Travel Costs"

this is not an entitlement - this is a blatant abuse of our taxes paid.

IF THEY WANT THERE FAMILY WITH THEM THEY SHOULD PAY NOT US.

How many other business can afford this to their employees? 

What our politicians are costing us can be found here 

  http://www.finance.gov.au/publications/parliamentarians-reporting

The total amount of our taxes used for "Family Travel costs" in just 6 months was a whopping $649,837.88.

On the Federal Government website it is called an Entitlement....?

There are 248 past and present politicians

The top 24 politicians who had extra gravy on their entitlement and spent more than $9,000 each wasting $306,439.38 (47.16%) of this so called Entitlement.

That is 9.68% of the politicians where REAL BIG spenders and taking full advantage of this privilege

Write to your federal representative and ask if they would vote to have this abolished. I have and none have replied..!!

Here is where you can find your local politicians details http://www.aph.gov.au/Senators_and_Members/Guidelines_for_Contacting_Senators_and_Members

Here are your TOP 24   "Family Travel Costs" BIG spenders

WA LIBERAL - The Hon Michael Keenan MP - 23,350.38
WA LIBERAL - The Hon Christian Porter MP - 18,908.62
QLD NATIONALS - Senator Matthew Canavan - 16,408.17
WA LIBERAL - Mr Luke Simpkins MP - 15,978.19
NT LABOR - Senator Nova Peris OAM - 15,229.94
VIC LIBERAL - The Hon Kevin Andrews MP - 13,707.23
QLD NATIONALS - The Hon Warren Truss MP - 13,669.91
QLD LIBERAL - Mr Luke Howarth MP - 13,494.47
NSW NATIONALS - The Hon Barnaby Joyce MP - 12,818.80
WA LIBERAL - Mr Ian Goodenough MP - 12,564.56
WA LIBERAL - Mr Steve Irons MP - 12,347.71
VIC LABOR - The Hon Brendan O'Connor MP - 11,969.35
NSW LIBERAL - The Hon Sussan Ley MP - 11,852.58
TAS LIBERAL - Senator the Hon Stephen Parry - 11,675.15
QLD LIBERAL - Senator the Hon Ian Macdonald - 11,463.78
NT LIBERAL - Mrs Natasha Griggs MP - 11,332.30
SA LABOR - Senator Alex Gallacher - 10,705.93
WA LIBERAL - Ms Melissa Price MP - 10,603.10
QLD LABOR - Senator Chris Ketter 10,255.13
QLD NATIONALS - The Hon Bruce Scott MP - 10,119.06
WA LIBERAL - The Hon Julie Bishop MP - 9,941.60
WA LIBERAL - The Hon Ken Wyatt AM MP - 9,573.86
NSW LABOR - The Hon Anthony Albanese MP - 9,365.75
NSW LABOR - The Hon Tony Burke MP - 9,103.81