Credit Where Credit's Due

Readers of this blog will be in no doubt that I don't like a lot of what Colin Barnett does nor how he goes about doing it. But there is always the exception - and his reported statement on MPs claiming expenses they are not entitled to is one that I and, I would hope, most people would support.

Contrast this with the 'head in the sand' approach that Tony Abbott appears to be taking federally - although I'm not sure that you can have your head in the sand when your snout's in the trough.

It seems that Don Randall and others who have been caught out lately take the view that, in the words emblazoned on my lawyer daughter's T-shirt, "It's only illegal if you get caught" - and even then they add the caveat that it isn't really illegal if you agree to pay back the money.

Ah! If only life were so simple for the rest of us.