Craig Kelly brought a strange item with him to parliament ahead of Tuesday night’s Budget, to the tune of thousands of dollars of taxpayer funds. Budget2021
Illustrated with Ned Kelly’s face, Craig Kelly delivered a press conference outlining his objections to today’s big-spending budget in which he showed off the fake trillion dollar notes.
He revealed the pallet of fake money had cost about $1000 to print, which had come out of his taxpayer-funded printing allowance, but he had not yet invoiced the expenses. Craig Kelly Presser said the notes would be expensed out of his taxpayer funded printing account. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Gary RamageIn a post on Twitter, the former LNP member asked his followers: “Wouldn’t you love to have this much money?“This represents close to $1 TRILLION of Federal and State Government net DEBT that YOU and future generations need to pay off.
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