Psyber wrote:I think the offenders are individuals of marginal ethics whichever party they are in.
(Remember Rann's villa in Italy and the issue about work done on it there and SA money that went to the village coffers.)
Whoever they are there should be an independent investigation to determine whether it was criminality or stupidity.
Either could suggest unfitness for office...
even if its stupidity, who approves the paperwork for the allowances?
if i have to do overtime here at work, my overtime allowance has to be approved by about three people, and i have to have a good excuse to do it. thankfully i only have to do 1 sunday morning about every three months
surely there is an approval process for these pollies? someone signing off on the payments, someone checking that at the very least they havent already reached their "cap" of allowed times per year. if not id suggest that there should be one by the end of the month. sommeone that can check into all of the expense claims, to save some of these "administrative errors" from embarrasing people in future...
and i agree, sack them all anyway. as you said Psyber, its either deliberate, or stupid, and either way they have demonstrated that they shouldnt hold their positions