Quote Originally Posted by waynekerr View Post
Liberal donor personally recommended Tony Abbott's daughter for scholarship.

Les Taylor, the chairman of the Whitehouse Institute of Design board of governors, personally
recommended the prime minister’s daughter for a $60,000 design degree scholarship, and has also
made donations of more than $20,000 to the state and federal Liberal party.

Frances Abbott was only the second recipient of the "chairman's scholarship", according to the
institute's chief executive.

A spokeswoman for the prime minister confirmed that Frances Abbott was a recipient of a
scholarship at the institute and said it was awarded as a result of her "application and art portfolio".

She said disclosure of the scholarship by the prime minister on the parliamentary register of
interests was "not required"

Wanna vomit?

I lifted this from “The Guardian, Australia edition” http://www.theguardian.com/au which is a
centre right publication with more balanced editorials than the claptrap we are served generally. It
does have a wide spectrum of reader comments however.

I didn't think I would contribute to this thread much more but I just couldn't let this one go
unnoticed.

WayneK.
To be fair, I honestly do not think this is something we can hold against ol' Tone. From the various reports I have read it appears that his daughter worked with distinction in this course and deserved the scholarship on her own merit.

However, it IS a bad look for him at this time, I admit. Especially as this Institute is set to be one of the "winners" in this budget...