Posted on 09/14/2010 9:17:08 AM PDT by OldDeckHand
More than $3 million will be spent by the Federal and NSW governments getting talk show queen Oprah Winfrey to Australia, but Tourism Minister Martin Ferguson says it will be worth every cent.
Winfrey announced overnight she would fly 300 members of her audience to Australia for an eight-day trip in December.
During the visit Winfrey will shoot several episodes of her daytime talk show, which has a weekly following of 40 million Americans and is screened in 145 countries.
The trip will be partly financed with $1.5 million from Tourism Australia's current financial year marketing budget.
(Excerpt) Read more at abc.net.au ...
Any gift taxes with this one? Please don’t bother Gayle or myself in first class!
OMG.. the whole world is sick, sick, sick. These so-called celebrities should just stay home and donate their money to the poor here. “Spread the Wealth,” as Obama instructed. Now they are tapping into the pockets of people in other countries so they can inflate their already ballooned egos. And they excuse their expenditures by veiling them behind a curtain of helping another country promote tourism. What a racket.
0Prah gets the credit while Aussies pick up the tab.
Why ?? all that money just to get this useless fat Obama loving pig down there!
“Only the poor people pay”
Dear Aussie’s... give her some body paint, a pile of bones, a didgeridoo, and keep her.
It costs so much because they have to weigh the opposite side of the continent down to keep it from tipping over when she lands.
Nah, they’ll get it back as soon as O eats dinner at a restaurant.
The others, much like Ono doubt, will add money to the Aussy coffers.
I thought it was perhaps going to be used to widen and reinforce every chair in the greater metro-Sydney area. But, your explanation seems more likely.
The typical Aussie probably doesn’t even know who Oprah is,let alone that she has more money than God.If she wants to pull a stunt like this to boost her ratings...or,perhaps,to set herself up on Australian TV...there’s no reason why Aussie taxpayers should be paying a penny for that stunt.She can handle it all by herself!
Can someone figure out how she’ll owe taxes there? Then the Aussie tax authorities can just keep her there as they did to Paul Hogan.
from what I’ve read the liberal Aussie government will probably try and get it back from Paul Hogan
There is absolutely no doubt she owes taxes in Australia, at least in some form. She owns her own show. And, she sells her show for broadcast in Australia. As such, I'm sure there is some kind of tax on that transaction.
Let's hope that she either gets pinched by the tax-man, or is eaten by rabid wallaby.
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