Sunday, March 30, 2008

ALP Hires Failed Electoral Candidates From Public Purse


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TAXPAYERS are paying failed Labor candidate Mike Bailey $12,500 a month to provide "strategic advice" to NEW South Wales Government minister Tony Kelly.

Bailey, a weatherman also employed to read weekend weather on Channel 9, was handed the four-day-a-week, taxpayer-funded job after he failed to beat Joe Hockey in the seat of North Sydney at last November's federal election.

He is among a raft of failed federal and state ALP candidates who have landed plum jobs with the State Government.

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