Aussie wrote on Feb 7
th, 2016 at 5:39pm:
Can you believe this sheeet! We are gonna fork out $M230 to build a Big House with lots of security. It seems accepted that the current place needs a fix, but Beazley managed to survive its deprivations despite complaints to Canberra. Now a Lib is there, (not a Labor comrade) it'll be fixed.
Link.I cannot imagine what rent we'll also pay to house the Embassy and Hockey's Family while the fix job is done.
Unbelievable. $M230!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Funds lobby
When Hockey visited Washington last year, Beazley lobbied our then Treasurer personally for the funding.
Back then, Tony Abbott's PMO was scheming about sending Malcolm Turnbull to 1601 Massachusetts Avenue. Now Hockey is on the cusp of benefiting from Beazley's powers of persuasion. A funny old world.
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However, it is going to take several years for the place to be demolished and rebuilt. Here's hoping Hockey gets a five-year posting to enjoy the benefits – not just the construction headaches.
It could be worse. Pity Abbott's national security adviser, Andrew Shearer. He was the expected next in line.
But that, of course, was before poo happened.
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