While we are looking at electoral funding and how it works, ABC Wimmera has an interesting story about some of the ‘rules’ for MP’s funding – after Nationals MP Anne Webster used taxpayer funds set aside for a satellite office (MPs with big electorates are granted additional funding for smaller offices) on billboard style advertising on an empty shop front.

Webster has told the ABC she has done nothing wrong. You can read the story, here (It is also an excellent example of the work regional and rural ABC journalists do, everyday)