lets find out the truth....thanks to another poster on this forum on another thread today... I am angry, we waited 17 days at a cost of 850 million for what appears to be a labor mole to reveal himself he was in the labor camp before as a state mp....now he is in an even bigger labor camp today....federal cabinet on a much higher pay
extract follows........ They recall questions over a $160,000 refit of his electoral office and a decision to move it away from the main street and constituents to a business park, which didn't go unnoticed in his electorate.
One describes him as having a great ability to charm and woo you, while another says that "it will be hysterical to watch him try and keep up with the workload" in Canberra.
Between 2003 and 2008, Oakeshott was absent from almost 15 per cent of the 301 parliamentary sitting days. A clear pattern shows he would leave Sydney early on Thursday so he could return home to Port Macquarie - and usually skipping any Friday sittings.