Charter versus government owned aircraft

[jonkster]

Originally Posted by Lead Balloon

A number of posters seem to be overlooking the fact that Mr Corman is a private citizen. He’s no longer a Senator. He’s no longer a politician. He’s a private citizen.

34SQN has a lot better things to do for the benefit of Australia than transporting a jobseeker trying out for a sinecure.

Centrelink requires you attend interviews as part of your "mutual obligation" if you want to keep the Jobseeker allowance. I assume he is just trying to do the right thing.

[mickjoebill]

Originally Posted by jonkster

Centrelink requires you attend interviews as part of your "mutual obligation" if you want to keep the Jobseeker allowance. I assume he is just trying to do the right thing.

Mathias tweeted the formal job interview was over last week in Europe. He said he had a “few more meetings” and flew to the Azores and on to South America. Then home via Honolulu today.

To those who say the Govt jet would have been doing something and it was positive the crew ticked off a few countries on the log book, well, you’ve missed the point of the thread.


The public should be told the cost of all the extras.

Te secondary point is what is the commercial value of the flights to Mathias? For instance, the army engineers build an extension to your home, the cost to the taxpayer is negligible, but the increase in value to your home is not.


Why didn’t this private citizen spend his own dollars, which could have gone to private charter companies and (non salaried?) civilian pilots?
Nov 7th Canberra-Perth -Muskrat-Anarka-Copenhagen-Berlin-Zurich-Bern-Ljubljana-Bern-Luxembourgh-Brussels-Madrid-Lisbon-Vienna-Budapest-Le Bourget -Geneva-Ponta Delgada (Azores)- Bogata-Santiago -Bogata-Cartagena-Honolulu-Canberra Dec 10

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[Bodie1]

Bodie ! There was recent article a few W/E Auatralians ago whe Ergas? Kenny ? gave a spiel on exactly this subject and the gist was the OECD in Europe will lead to the life of abject luxury for this now private citizen and that the return on investment to the Oz taxpayer will be ZILCH. Whether he gets the job or not
It really just reinforces the view that bureaurats and pollies just LOVE to spend other peoples money any which way.. Its a life style thing...we're entitled.!

For every article that takes this line, there'd be one that takes the opposite line I reckon.