Abbott rents Kirribilli House to daughter for $250wk - WTF?

Both David and I are presently on a pension struggling to pay our rent of $380 a week. Cheap for Sydney, particularly the eastern suburbs where all our support is.

Tony Abbott, the most well paid leader in the world on over $half a million a year, has rented a Kirribilli House room out to his daughter for only $250 a week. Allegedly the PM is paying for it, so technically she's living there for nothing. 

 Just how does he think that that makes the many Australians, battling outrageously high Sydney rents, feel? She's not even on a pension. Talk about the age of entitlement FFS!

His office would not disclose how much the family was paying but The Sunday Telegraph understands it is more than $13,000 a year, or $250 a week. 

The board was determined by The Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet took Sydney’s soaring property prices into consideration. 

“My daughter, Bridget ­Abbott, is undertaking her professional year as a graduate radiologist. She is therefore no longer a dependant under ­entitlements,’’ Mr Abbott said. 

“As Bridget will continue to live at Kirribilli House, I have notified the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet to ensure that standard contribution is made while she completes her professional year.’’ more

This is just wrong. $250 for a room in a share house, that being in fact Kirribilli House? Oh Tone, you'll just never learn will you.

On the bright side, maybe David and I could move to Kirribilli house and rent one of their rooms. The room would probably be about the same size as our entire place here, and a lot better in rent.

A similar priced property in the cheap part of the eastern suburbs. It's not Kirribilli House and you'll have to contribute to utilities, buy your own food, etc.

Update;

Just 4 months before SSJoe's disasterous May budget last year, where he uttered those now Freudian words that "the age of entitlement is over", Abbott spent $120,000 on "renovations" to Kirribilli House. This included a $13,000 family room rug.

Rushcutters Bay interior decorators Milgate provided a "family room carpet rug" for $12,915 on the taxpayer tab. 

The firm describes itself as "importers and distributors of several luxury brands of interior products for architects, designers and other members of the interior design industry". 

Labor frontbencher Tony Burke said the splurge was a case of wrong priorities given the government's rhetoric on saving money by cutting services amid a $47 billion deficit this year. "When you see something like this, it's pretty clear what the government's priorities are," he said. more