'trust-me tony's' silence on expenses is curio, page-18

I'm not going to defend anyone who rorts the system or taxpayers.

But I find it breathtaking that labor would even raise the subject, seeing as how they wrote the book on it.

If I wanted to find out how to do it, there are many labor experts in the field that I could go to.

Labor constantly defended Gillard and others by saying that Howard did ti, so it must be ok.

I could say that now, but I'm not going to. Rorting is dishonest at best and stealing at worst. As I said, labor were in a class of their own on this.

Gillard and Rudd and Swan set the bar a whole lot lower, so don't complain now, you write the new rules. Labor's rules were