payers foot his wife’s $19,134 travel bill for July – December last year. Pensioners will note that averages $3189 per month.
While he was Minister for Veterans Affairs, old soldiers got a whopping 22 cents per kilometre for driving their own cars to essential medical appointments despite the Australian Tax Office and RACQ assessing over 60 cents per kilometre as a fair reimbursement rate.
But in vain WWII, Korean and Vietnam War veterans, often separated from wife and family for months or years, sought an increase from Mr Scott, due to rising fuel costs.
Has he never read, “Just as you want men to do to you, you also do to them likewise.”?
Geoff Pickering,
Warwick
