MrBafner wrote on Feb 20
th, 2011 at 12:12am:
The member for Blair in February 2010 spent
$1.3 million
on printing letterheads, envelopes and other stationary.
He then prints out a monthly newsletter and has it distributed to every house in Ipswich and all other surrounding areas.
February 2011 Mr Neauman pays a company that works from a residential house to distribute the full colour envelopes with his full colour letterhead with double sided printing. Australia post also put the same envelopes in every private mail box.
2 times in the 1 week we received his special looking envelope filled with garbage of how good his political party is doing.
From speaking to him, all printing was done in Canberra.
Pitty these funds couldn't be used for flood relief in his own electorate.
BY BUYING
1.3 million sheets of personalised letterhead in one hit, Federal MP Shayne Neumann maintains he is saving taxpayers thousands of dollars.
Yesterday Mr Neumann defended his big spending on stationery in the first half of this year, saying he was doing his job and “communicating with constituents”.
Media reports over the weekend revealed that the Labor backbencher had greatly surpassed Opposition Leader Tony Abbott – who purchased a mere 491,000 sheets of personalised letterhead before the Federal election – in his buying spree.
Mr Neumann said his “printing and communication” costs of $106,314 were within parliamentary entitlement.“There’s nothing unethical and it’s entirely lawful,” he said.
“I have done nothing wrong.
http://www.qt.com.au/story/2010/12/06/mp-orders-big-to-save-taxpayer-dollars-on-...IT HAS been dubbed "toner-gate" - a three-week, $300,000 splurge on printer ink by Liberal MPs to stock up on office supplies for the pending federal election.
After being told in September 2009 that a strict finance cap would be introduced from October 1 that year, Opposition members ordered $267,288 worth of printer cartridge toner, according to documents obtained through Freedom of Information.
With the election almost a year away, some Liberal figures claimed they were told by party HQ to be "ruthless" ordering taxpayer-funded supplies ahead of the campaign.
One Liberal MP, West Australian Don Randall, ordered $25,414.68 of toner cartridges for his office printer, while South Australian Patrick Secker spent $21,797.74.
Deputy Speaker Peter Slipper spent $19,280.83 while ex-Liberal Michael Johnson ordered $18,640.86 for his office - enough to fund a marginal seat's campaign.
Despite its parliamentary majority of 18, Labor MPs spent $127,488 in the same period - less than half what the Coalition spent.
http://www.news.com.au/national/liberals-spend-300000-in-three-weeks-on-printer-...
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