As a backbencher, and he wants to campagion on the economy. This would all have been whiteanting calls.
PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd racked up a massive $29,676 phone bill in just six months as a backbencher - dwarfing every Government minister as he worked the phones.
And Foreign Minister Bob Carr spent an amazing $721,576 on foreign travel, in what may be a record spend for any Australian MP over a six-month period.
