Pigs in the swill
MickGo105, the figure of 20% may be an embellishment, but after 40 years in operations, executive management and Government, I know what they get. And even if it is 2%, when that is tacked onto a salary of between $250k and $500k, that’s a lot. They receive remuneration from their own business interests and seats that they hold on the boards of private companies also. In recent years they have received payrises, tax cuts, and a raise in their expense allowances. Since 2009 parliamentary salaries have been increasing at an average of 5 percent per year, almost twice as fast as working people’s wages, which have grown at 2.8 per cent by WPI over the same period. Last year politicians received another 2 percent pay rise on the same day that 700,000 low-paid workers had their penalty rates cut for the third year.
Mick, you are entitled to defend your elected mates, but they are still grubs.