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Primary Industries minister Ian Macdonald has been exposed charging his luxury lifestyle to his department’s corporate credit card, including buying a $1299 LCD television for his home.
Mr Macdonald credits himself with having discovered a rich seam of public money underneath the card, and used his discretion in awarding himself the right to harness the precious resource.
The minister’s office told The Sunday Telegraph that the home TV was for official use. His first TV assignment was to spend the weekend getting to understand the concerns of farming communities by watching every episode in the DVD box set of McLeod’s Daughters.
Mr Macdonald was only appointed to the farm portfolio after consultation with Premier Nathan Rees’s book of nursery rhymes. “Ee-i-ee-i-oh,” Mr Rees told The Daily Grind.
Mr Macdonald’s conduct will now be investigated by the Department of Premier and Cabinet, a probe that Mr Macdonald has dismissed as a “fishing expedition,” as well as a “mining expedition,” a “forestry expedition,” and a “farming expedition.”
The embattled minister’s opening statement to the inquiry will be “so I suppose a Foxtel IQ is out of the question?”
Mr Macdonald understands rural communities thanks to a taxpayer-funded LCD television and a DVD box set of McLeod's Daughters.
