Craig Kelly demonstrates wasted budget money by wasting $1000 of taxpayer dollars to print counterfeit cash for copy of stunt by 420 activists less than 4 weeks ago.
Rogue MP Craig Kelly has backtracked on a colourful Parliament House stunt protesting the government racking up a record level of debt in Tuesday’s budget, now promising to pay the printing costs for “trillions” of dollars in fake money after previously planning to bill it to the taxpayer.
The politician known for his crazy antics copied a group of cannabis vigilanties known as “Who Are We Hurting”. Less than 4 weeks ago, on April 20 (420) The collective of artists and advocates, accompanied by two armed cash in transit security guards, attended Parliament House in Canberra with $420,000 worth of crisp green $100 notes. This amount represents a portion of the daily excise Australians are losing due to prohibition. April 20th is a day celebrated by Cannabis consumers worldwide.
As a recently former member of the LNP, a party notorious for failing to enact smart drug policy, Mr Kelly has shown once again that his taste for theatrics is both uncreative and what some would describe as uncalled for, he has once again shown why the comedian Friendly Jordies parodies him so frequently.
“I’m happy to pay for it to make the point,” Mr Kelly told The New Daily, moments after giving a tongue-in-cheek press conference next to a waist-high stack of fake ‘one trillion dollar’ bills he had made at a local printing firm. During the press conference, Mr Kelly originally stated that the budget for his stunt had come out of the “printing & communications allowance” he is entitled to due to his political position, a tax funded allowance set out in the very budget he is opposing.
Mr Kelly, who recently quit the Liberal Party after a dispute over his barracking for unproven COVID treatments, had the large prop shipped to Parliament House to protest the government approaching one trillion dollars in debt.
View the original stunt here
