From: Steve Turner
[turnhaul@mail.mdt.net.au]
Sent: Monday, 22 July 2002 12:07
PM
To: fpa.sen@aph.gov.au
Subject: Public submission on MP
lifetime travel perks
I read in the Sunday Mail in South Australia on the
21st July 2002 that the Senate Finance & Public Administration Committee
were looking for public submissions on the above.
I could not fin where to send it, so thought that
perhaps you may be able to forward this on to the right person.
As a tax payer I believe that
all politicians should receive no further perks of any
kind once they leave their position.
On leaving their position they usually receive a
payout, superannuation just as any employed person would, and that is where it
should stop.
At present, whether it is the Liberals or the Labor
Government, the governments are placing continual additional taxes on every day
working Australians who are finding it extremely hard to make ends
meet.
For MP's to receive continual perks of any kind
when they leave, is an unjust and total waste of Australian people's funds which
should be used for health, education, road conditions etc.
The government must start listening to the average
Australian. They are draining the people that are out there working, to line
their own pockets with funds and perks and giving it away to people who just
won't work.
The average working Australian is getting very
tired of being the one continually having to pay out and ending up being the one
which is becoming the disadvantaged Australian.
The government needs to start thinking about
looking after the ones that are paying their way.
Stop all perks once an MP or Prime
Minister, no matter what their title is once they leave their
job.
Regards
Debra Quinn
Altona Road
Lyndoch SA 5351
ph: 85244859