Captain Chaos update - K Rudd shows he loves VIP travel just as much as Howard ...

Excerpt from Courier Mail:

28 June 2008
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Just a few weeks into his new job, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd chalked up $75,000 in taxpayer-funded VIP flights to go to the Boxing Day cricket Test in Melbourne.

Official documents released late on the final day of Parliament's budget session show a RAAF VIP Boeing 737 jet flew from Canberra to Melbourne on December 27, 2007, with Mr Rudd, his son Marcus, 14, several staff and a security detail on board.

The airliner flew back to Canberra empty and the next day returned to Melbourne to collect Mr Rudd and Marcus, as well as older brother Nicholas.

A day after he returned from the cricket, Mr Rudd, his wife Therese Rein and their two sons took a $25,000 VIP flight to Sydney to watch the New Year's Eve fireworks from the Kirribilli House veranda.
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See - Courier Mail - PM took a $75,000 trip to watch the cricket.