Isn't the temptation to cheat too great and has already been readily extended to cheating the Australian taxpayer?
1. Vikki gets one non-existent well paying "job", drawn out of fresh air, in the office of Senator Canovan (due to need to get her out of the gossip ridden environment of Barnaby's office. Nationals Senator Matt Canavan's office after Mr Turnbull was informed of her and Mr Joyce's relationship.....attempt to dampen the fire.....but it didn't work....
2. When that "job" falls into a heap, another "job" suddenly appears, this time in the office of Mr Drum.....
No other applicants were invited to compete for these conveniently engineering-for-Vikki-only jobs. Of course not. They were designed to stem the outpouring of gossip.
Oops, too late. She is now pregnant with a child from the Deputy Prime Minister of Australia.
In Corporate Australia and at universities and schools, the employment of a spouse within the same environment is either denied or just very rarely considered justifiable. There are rules about these things and have been in existence of decades. I have taught in a school with two husband and wife teams but each member of the team has been in a different department. Some thing when the faculty is the same at a University, the department is likely to be a different one. All very careful regarding this as too much a temptation for one person giving their partner some employment/pay advantage due to their relationship rather than to their skill or academic achievement status.
So, why should politicians be in a position to use tax payers money to award privileges to their latest girlfriends acquired when employed and even while married?
