Monday, March 19, 2007

Ni hao... know-how.

Australian newspapers are reporting that former Minister for Immigration Amanda Vanstone (pictured at right) has admitted to spending AU$30,000 (US$24,000) of tax payer's money on Mandarin lessons. I hate to say it, but it's just not that hard. Yes it's a complex language, one I myself have no where near mastered even though I live in China, but seriously... $30 thousand dollars? Someone needs to give that woman a big fat red F.

Read the article from the Sydney Morning Herald here

2 comments:

Mia said...

So is she at least fluent now? For 24 g's she should have at least gotten a nice shirt out of it.
Why couldn't she just invest in those Lonely Planet language CD's? They come with little books too and only cost $19.99!

Louise said...

well by the looks of her, maybe she just spent the 24k on chinese FOOD...