Of course it wasn't a helicopter but the very weary taxpayer foots the bill.

Nice work if you can get it.

What are the guidelines to our pollies entitlements?

Here in Sydney we are thinking property investment in Albury-Wodonga must be pretty crook when even your local member of parliament prefers to invest for retirement thousands of kilometres away from her electorate on the Gold Coast?

You have to wonder if the local member won't invest in her own electorate why should anyone from outside the area even consider it?

Peter Chick (Letters to the editor, The Border Mail, January 7) espouses the Liberal Party mantra that “Labor threw out all our savings”.

Does he not remember Labor spent the budget surplus to stimulate employment at the time of the Global Financial Crises?

An acquaintance stated that it was only Labor’s stimulus package that allowed him to survive.

He was employed fitting windows on “Kevin Rudd’s useless school halls” that people are now enjoying (along with insulated homes).

Perhaps Peter would prefer Joe Hockey’s response to GMH’s need for assistance.

Joe wasn’t inclined to offer anything, went even further daring GMH to tell him what they were going to do.

They told him all right and pulled out of Australia altogether.

Now the entire car industry is about to shut down costing 400,000 jobs and future apprenticeship training places.

I’m not sure on whose authority Joe Hockey states 42 per cent of the stimulus money went overseas but as to the deaths caused by the pink bats “fiasco”, the Liberals can match it.

Under their watch we have had two deaths in detention and more recently two citizens severely bashed on Manus Island.

Today we have a revenue problem caused by Liberals’ continuous rounds of tax cuts and opposition to the mining tax, not to mention the billions lost by ending the carbon tax.

Now Liberals, having more than doubled the debt, are chasing those who can least afford it to make up the shortfall.

Is this what he refers to as great Liberal Party economic management?

Yet again the Bureau of Meteorology’s Yarrawonga radar has been out of action, this time since January 3.

This fairly typifies how regional Australia sits as a poor second place to the cities.  

When was the last time Melbourne or Sydney's radars were down?  

What a disgrace, shame on BOM, don't know why I am writing this complaint as you will do nothing other than offer a lukewarm patronizing citycentric apology.  

Guess what, apparently rural and regional Australians don't need to know about their weather, we will just wing it and hope.  

Yet this is where crops are grown, livestock raised – where our food comes from. 

Who really cares if our poor capital cities get a downpour or a heatwave.  

Such weather events are to be expected.

When trying to submit this issue via their website I was advised of an error which could not be corrected, very handy if you don’t want to have to address the matter.