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The nanny state starts at the top:
Taxpayers will foot the bill for a babysitter at The Lodge for Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s 14-year-old son.
“Looxury,” says the PM. “Why, when I were ’is age, I were living in car.”
(Via Monaro)
UPDATE: A change of plan:
Mr Rudd will reimburse taxpayers for the cost of the child care, his office said today.
Things are looking up for Nelson and the Coalition with a preferred Prime Minister rating of 9%. Coalition to drop AWA’s
Also of note is that Tim Blair and his band of haters are doing irrepairable damage to Rudd and Federal Labor with Rudd’s preferred Prime Minister rating at 70%.Have some sympathy for the lad involved. First, you have this picture of you and your olds splashed on the front page. Worse still is that it only confirms that you are cross between a bloke who looks like an ageing lesbian and a woman who is by no means at all a ‘MILF’.
The cutting blow, just as your mates think it’s cool to know the PM’s son, is the revelation you need a babysitter at 14.
No friends and lots of bashings to come. same as his dad had at his age, I’m sure.
A baby sitter for a 14 years old?
Just how big were her tits?
Posted by joe bagadonuts on 2008 02 19 at 12:20 AM • permalinkI dunno Wiz, how did you turn out?
But yeah, fourteen seems kind of old to need a babysitter.
Posted by Sonetka's Mom on 2008 02 19 at 12:21 AM • permalink#2, Tim is in a band called The Haters? Why didnt anyone tell me?
Let me guess, Tim plays the drums. I’d imagine he envisages folk of your ilk when percussing his polar bear skinned drums.
Posted by The_Wizard_of_WOZ on 2008 02 19 at 12:23 AM • permalinkBabysitter? I specifically requested a wetnurse.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2008 02 19 at 12:24 AM • permalinkI’d say he’s probably far too mature to be dropped off at Question Time- Kevvie’s guaranteed he’ll kick in for the cost (now he’s been sprung- the staffer who let slip on this one will be on dunny duty for the duration when Kommisar Kev’s Staff Stassi track them down), but surely this is still a betrayal of his working class roots and supporters, like his use of private hospitals and schools for his family? The true show of solidarity would be for Kev to enrol the kiddie at Canberra High, and he won’t need a carer in the ‘arvo as he’ll be busily involved in extracurricular activities that teach valuable life lessons like redistributing ownership of electrical goods, removing carbon dioxide-producing cars from the roadways of the area, trading in market-gardened vegetable commodities and the support of local entertainment facilities*.
*Sounds better for the literary-challenged hacks in the gallery than burglary, car theft and arson, flogging whizz and feeding the slots in arcades.
Wouldn’t it be nice if Tim Blair was a proper journalist and gave the whole story: Rudd_to_personally pay for child minder
I guess that would take away from the hate though…
Just caught the aforementioned QT- the lovely dulcet-toned deputy PM was stridently whining about surplus work-choices mousepads, and wondering what can be done with them as they’re not recyclable-
Ironbar Tuckey from the cheap seats:- Send them out with your free computers then!
Nearly lost my shit- sorry for O/T.
One thing I will say about Nelson that I admire is that he told he cautioned his team about attacking the Rudd’s over the child minder as a 14 year old was involved . Obviously people on this site have no such qualms.Bottom paragraph of article
The PM has a large suite of offices at parliament house. He has plenty of staff in those offices at all times. He has an entire Commonwealth car fleet at his disposal. Parliament house also has some good places to eat, including the members dining room.
I see no reason why junior can’t go from school to Parliament and hang around in dad’s offices. They’ll make him up a security pass, and he can amuse himself by wandering around chatting to the various inhabitants of the building and watching question time.
I did that for a few weeks when I was about 10 - had lots of fun playing with a teletype machine in the old parliament house, and bashing away on IBM electric typewriters. Got to drop in on Malcolm Fraser in his office and play with the red (bat)phone.
Babysitter. Pfft.
Posted by mr creosote on 2008 02 19 at 12:36 AM • permalinkYes ‘agile’ the whole story is that he had to wait until he was well and truly busted before he reached into his wife’s treasury to pay for a baby sitter.
The fact that they were audacious to try this on in the first place given their wealth and the austerity measures he is imposing on others is the story.
#13 - When’s your babysitter due home and how did you disable the net nanny, you naughty boy?!
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2008 02 19 at 12:37 AM • permalinkWouldn’t it be nice if Tim Blair was a proper journalist and gave the whole story: Rudd_to_personally pay for child minder
You mean they’re really hiring an infant Dennis Waterman?
#9 agile
Wouldn’t it be nice if Tim Blair was a proper journalist and gave the whole story: Rudd_to_personally pay for child minder
I guess that would take away from the hate though…
It’d be more reasonable to assume that as Rudd only announced that this morning Tim didn’t know about it.
I guess that would take away from the hate though…
Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2008 02 19 at 12:55 AM • permalinkO/T- Swaneeeee floundering like a Southern Ocean single parent minke again, utterly unable to answer another basic question on fiscal management, this time on the inflationary effect of state debt and levle of same- didn’t have a blind clue.
The fucking ABC at lunch-time tried to dress up his utter incompetence and preschool-level economic knowledge and acumen by doorstopping opposition back-benchers on the NAIRU, who knew the rate was between 4.5-5.5%, and what it was and what it’s effect is- one even stated that a firm figure cannot be given except at a specific time; The ABC bottom-feeder then said something along the lines of “well even they don’t seem to know either”. They did know, and they’re not the fucking treasurer.
This is going to be a very disturbing three years (total collapse of society, Mad-Max-style brigands roaming the streets, Centrelink hours cut etc not withstanding).
Wouldn’t it be nice if Tim Blair was a proper journalist and gave the whole story: Rudd_to_personally pay for child minder
Yes, now that he’s been sprung with his hand in the till.
But Mr Rudd would reimburse taxpayers for the cost of the child care, his office said today.
Kev’s got to be made to understand that what might be common practice in Queensland governance is actually a crime in other parts of the country.
#3. Nic, I’ve felt for a long time that Ruddy looked disturbingly androgynous.
I your description of him looking like an aging lesbian is spot on.Posted by eagle bomber on 2008 02 19 at 01:04 AM • permalink#3
Have some sympathy for the lad involved. First, you have this picture of you and your olds splashed on the front page.
Actually, I have a ton of respect for the kid, thanks to his Leeroy Jenkins t-shirt.
He should become Labor’s new Minister of Defence.
Check this out - it’s a video capture recording of a bunch of geeks playing World of Warcraft, a multiplayer network computer game. It all goes pear-shaped when Leroy Jenkins returns from getting some chicken and resumes his place at the computer. Worth watching to the end.
Oh ye Gods and little fishes!
I really feel for this poor boy, I really do.
First his father publicly embarrasses him over not studying mandarin and having to be pushed to do his Homework, now he employs a nanny.??????? Goodness me I was out working at 14 as were my parents in their day.
I do not expect it of Michael as I did not for my own, but with all the staff and security why!
Let me guess- its a job for a family member or friend at our expense or an IOUAgile are you really that silly? Check the tenses used in the story.
“..An estimates committee heard last night that Mr Rudd and his wife, Therese Rein, had employed a child carer as part of their taxpayer-funded staff at their official residence in Canberra..”That means the taxpayer paid for the nanny, not Krudd and co.
“..But Mr Rudd will reimburse taxpayers for the cost of the child care, his office said today..”That means Mr spin found out he was to be quizzed on it, and decided to spin his way out of it by dipping into his own breadbag to PAY BACK what had allready been spent.
Can you please elaborate on exactly what it is you mean by your comments, they dont seem to make any sense at all.
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2008 02 19 at 01:27 AM • permalink#29 Leeroy Jenkins? That explains why he needs a babysitter - too much warcrack.
Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2008 02 19 at 01:32 AM • permalinkWhen I was 14, my parents trusted me at home by myself.
Of course, my dad didn’t hang out at strip clubs so it may be a question of examples set…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2008 02 19 at 01:34 AM • permalink#34 Blair quoted “Taxpayers will foot the bill for a babysitter at The Lodge for Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s 14-year-old son. “
Whatever way you spin it this is not the case. Rudd WILL pay for this cost.
Just out of interest did Blair make a blog entry for this John Howard’s Last Drinks on us or any of the other countless Howard taxpayer expenses?
Nope, didn’t think so.
#19 Habib, surely you realise by now that one of the ABC’s functions is to avenge embarrassed Labor politicians.
Woody Woodpecker must be loving Swan’s humiliating collapse. What’s the bet she and that dropkick hairdresser announce their engagement in the next couple of years? She wants to take over but I doubt she’ll run for The Lodge as a single chick whose idea of stressful household management is shopping for that famous empty fruit bowl.
Oh Agile by name, not by nature, Rudd, the richest man in parliament, had taxpayer-funded babysitting until he was shamed into paying for it himself. Think of it like attempted robbery. It is still a crime even though you fail.
The journalist who wrote the report Tim linked to is Maria Hawthorne, a Labor stooge working at AAP. She would do nothing to hurt Rudd the Howard Slayer. If anything she would have watered-down her report.
38. Contrail has your answer at #40.
The point being Krudd could have probably made a good case for the nanny (even if it seem the kid is a bit old for it), based on the perks of the job.
His addiction to spin means he wasnt even prepared to carry on whith what he was laaready doing if it meant any criticism of him at all. Thats not a “firmly held labor principle” coming to the fore, thats being a weasel.Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2008 02 19 at 02:19 AM • permalinkDunno about Scores, but maybe the kid would appreciate Shakira in a swimsuit ...
Egg (#49), after watching the Shakira clip, my immediate thought was Kevin who?
But after Kevni living in a car we have Mike ‘I never volunteered’ Kelly recalling how he lived in a garage. What next?Posted by AlphaMikeFoxtrot on 2008 02 19 at 03:08 AM • permalink#5, Sonetka’s Mum, Well I’d never heard of leeroy jenkins before (however I do know people who live in the WoW) and I had a job at 14. Stacking kegs of beer that weighed a fair bit more than me.
I learned a lot of things in that job, one of which was proper lifting. This was before OH&S raised its head.
Considering his choice of clothing, I rekon the ‘babysitter’ is there to keep the sprog out of trouble with ‘those nasty boys at the park’.As for Sir John Winston Howard’s farewell drinks, $548.18 worth of booze sounds like any ‘business’ lunch I’ve ever seen. Back in my suit wearing days we put away $5000 of booze in just under 3 hours between 30 of us. Even if those Canberra types are light weights on the ‘top shelf’ wine (and I REALLY doubt that) thats still a pretty damn cheap shindig.
Considering the price of a SINGLE bottle of Penfolds Grange Hermitage can cost anywhere between $425 (‘92) and $45,000 (‘51), I commend Sir JWH’s fiscal restraint.
Personally I’d have gotten half (the Right half) of Canberra shit faced and silly, what would they do? Fire me?
Posted by The_Wizard_of_WOZ on 2008 02 19 at 03:59 AM • permalinkThis is a tempest in a teapot, although Rudd should have given some thought to the implications.
Don’t mind a bit of revenge, however. Every time John Howard sneezed the ALP, media and fellow travellers were onto him about who would pay for the handkerchief.
Looking forward to a bit of payback for the relentless hounding that Howard received over 11 years. Often wondered how he found the time to govern.
“The nanny state starts at the top:”
Trickle down socialism?
Posted by Dave Surls on 2008 02 19 at 04:07 AM • permalink“I guess that the Cuban govt is getting ready to announce Castro’s death.”
That’s just nature’s way of enforcing term limits.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2008 02 19 at 04:14 AM • permalinkWat O/T, but does feeling a lack of sympathy for the victims of this outrage make me:-
a). A misanthrope.
b). A recist.
c). Cultural-diverserity unappreciative.
d). Speciesist.I’d like to know, because while I think the Taliban are hideous, depraved, spineless, bloodthirsty, atavistic and hateful, I find the victims of this cowardly attack to be in the same category. Like Somalia there’s a lot to be said for sealing the borders and sending in munitions.
Jebus, this going off the piss is no good- make that “way” for “Wat” and “racist” for “recist”. I’ve got one of those dopey slide-out keyboard shelves and it’s in shadow when I’m usually using the desk light, might be time to kick up the power cosumption and fit my desk with one of these.
60. Habib
Your only racist if you dont wish the same thing on any group of people attending dog fights.
If we parachuted all the PETA members into AF with a bomb belt each Id consider that win/win.
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2008 02 19 at 04:54 AM • permalink#60 Habib, It might make you a misanthrope, a position for which I think there is a lot to be said, but not the rest. It’s nice to see that there’s another member of the “build a high wall round them and throw crates of ammo over it when they seem to be running low” school. I’d got to feeling I was the only one.
Also, if you haven’t read it I think you’d like George MacDonald Fraser’s The Light’s on at the Signpost, particularly the “Angry old Man” chapters.
O/T but the devil got himself a new buttplug
“..The Philippine military has exhumed what it believes is the body of Dulmatin, an Indonesian militant wanted for the 2002 Bali bombings that killed over 200 people..”
Burn in hell shitboy.
Hitler finaly gets a day off from this.Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2008 02 19 at 05:12 AM • permalinkI have no objection to a babysitter overnight for a 14 year old.
I don’t think the taxpayer should be paying.
The employer in any position does not pay for babysitting for a staff member.
And apparently Kevvie is the richest PM we’ve ever had.
Shame it’s ‘cos of his Mi$$u$$ezzzz’$z* Million$.
He’s still a weasel.
If a public servant piled up a stack of unauthorised charges on his government credit card, I doubt he would be allowed to pay it back (when busted) and keep his job.
My parents were silly enough to leave me home at that age. I sampled everything in the drinks cabinet. Got utterly smashed.
Posted by mr creosote on 2008 02 19 at 05:37 AM • permalinkOf course the money comes from Mrs T Rudd, you know whatsisname, looked in her petty cash jar. Such benevolence.
Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 02 19 at 06:59 AM • permalinkThis looks like a mistake. That’s Rosanne Barr, not Mrs. Rudd.
Posted by wronwright on 2008 02 19 at 07:07 AM • permalink#85- That’d be the lavish food preparation area of Prix de Altona, which surely would’ve kicked along value-wise after the stunning retro renovation of the brekky nook, so it looks like a prewar built sharehouse’s kitchen that’d just had a can of whatever Solver was getting rid of splashed about before the next coven of Wiccans/amphetemine lab/posse of perpetual humanities undergraduates/part-time anarchist + fulltime welfare recipient collective/rythmn bereft rap act moves in and covers the area with more compost and life-forms than a rainforest canopy.
Why I reckon that allowing for inflation and local growth, that fine abode might be worth almost the mid-100s on the current market (but get in quick before the next 43 interest rate rises).
I don’t see why Kevin’s son would need a babysitter. When is he likely to be alone? Wouldn’t Security take him to school and bring him back? Wouldn’t The Lodge have Security around the clock? There would also be other staff present. Surely, the boy is old enough to get his own snacks from the fridge and get on with his homework.
I take it Therese is not a hands-on mother.
#85 kae: You’re right! I have to say that I have a hard time imagining that the windows should have been high priority fix-up items, unless they were previously just roughly-cut holes in the wall covered with oiled paper. Those ghastly cabinets and the horrible floor put me in mind of a doctor’s waiting room.
#88: Habib, you are the Australian Tom Wolfe - every sentence pops with memorable similes and metaphors.
The last time my parents got a babysitter for me I was 15. To this day even writing that statement fills me with shame.
Of course I also had a large clutch of younger siblings, so the possible lack of confidence in my ability to look after them on my own probably factored in their thinking, plus I think that the old man was stuck in some sort of feedback loop which pictured his children running down the hill like the opening sequence of Little House on the Prairie, even though it was episode 1,000,003 and Laura Ingles had a batch of ankle biters of her own.
Anyhoo, the babysitter was this totally hot 18 year old that unfortunately was not interested in my proposals to make the best of the situation. I suspect she reported at least some of this behaviour to my parents, and I never had a baby sitter again.
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A 14 yo with a baby sitter? These lefties think everyone needs someone telling them what to do dont they.
When I was 14 I was wandering the streets after dark and drinking whatever I could pinch from the fridge without dad noticing.
And look how I turned out.