JB1975
Brownlow Medallist
I hate to admit it but I don't even know what Bronwyn Bishop has done. Can't google it because the only web site I have been able to receive this morning is bigfooty.
BF is a suspect forum for footy news; not sure you'd want to rely on it as a backup to the BBC! For what it's worth, the short of it is that Bishop chartered a helicopter to get to a Liberal Party function, from Melbourne to Geelong. She didn't seem to mind that this non-essential business cost the taxpayer $5,000.
She refused to apologise, at first. The media starting raking through her travel records and found other dodgy claims. Then she apologised, just the other day, but since then she has obviously come to realise (or the PM has realised on her behalf) than her position is untenable. How can the government get out a message that the 'age of entitlement' is over for everyone else, when its own members have evince such an almighty sense of entitlement? The trick is to not be seen putting your snout in the trough, a nicety which Bishop forgot about, and so now she's been pushed from the helicopter by those who are more clever and careful in skimming other people's money.
NOTE: Some aspects of this news report may reflect the political fancies of the author.