Can Australian taxpayers afford Tony Abbott's sense of entitlement?

Breaking an entrenched “entitlement” mindset is far from easy

taxpayers have a right to insist that their money is not wasted

Tony Abbott

17 November 2000

31 March 2011

The Sydney Morning Herald 11 October 2013

Between 1 July 2008 and 31 December 2012

in addition to his generous parliamentary salary

the Hon. Anthony John ‘Tony’ Abbott

was paid an est. $2.87 million in member ‘entitlements’

based on requests he submitted to the

Federal Dept. of Finance