The rewards for services rendered goes back a long way sunny.
Wonder what a recent pollie did to get a directors post, paid big fees, and he didnt even have to turn up to? Oh! and an overseas farm, just to put the icing on the cake.
That was all around the time that stamp duties needed to be paid on leases for comonwealth owned pockets of land in the state capitals.
Wonder who and what the payoff will be when the property sharks finally get their way and our industry is finished.