Kevin Rudd has received a lot of attention in the media this week due a drunken night out at New York strip club Scores. Now to me this is what make politics interesting, dare I say sexy! How did he swindle his way out of this incident? He was too drunk to remember what happened! How Australian is that? It's also an excuse I'm sure every CSU student is familiar with.
Of course, many media reports have suggested that this could work in Rudd's favour; making him appear more human. We know incidents like this worked in Bob Hawke's favour. Today's opinion polls showed little change to Kevin Rudd's rating, yet the incident only came to light on the last day of the survey, so a more accurate measurement will probably appear in the next published poll.
However human it does make Rudd appear, it also raises the issue of accountability when spending tax payer's money whilst representing Australia. I wonder, where do we go to find out exactly how politicians spend while overseas? What kind of ramifications are there for inapproproately spending the tax payer's dollar? I can recall Mr. Howard often hammering his key message of, "It was within the allocated budget" when being called up on the massive amount of money spent of government advertising... So Mr. Rudd - is that pocket full of $5 notes within the allocated budget, or are you just happy to see me?
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