Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2012 11:20 amThe Sleeping Giant wrote:Pollies staff do all the work anyway.
Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2012 6:41 pmPosted: Mon Jul 02, 2012 6:46 pmPosted: Mon Jul 02, 2012 6:52 pmPosted: Mon Jul 02, 2012 6:57 pmTaking her word for it..FlyingHigh wrote:You're taking her word for it - you haven't personally experienced it?
Just checking.
Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2012 7:18 pm Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2012 7:47 pmBooney wrote:The Sleeping Giant wrote:Pollies staff do all the work anyway.
No different to any work place where a boss ( or the pollie in this instance ) is advised / supported by their staff.
Not sure what you're trying to tell us here.
Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2012 10:39 amThe Sleeping Giant wrote:Booney wrote:The Sleeping Giant wrote:Pollies staff do all the work anyway.
No different to any work place where a boss ( or the pollie in this instance ) is advised / supported by their staff.
Not sure what you're trying to tell us here.
That they don't work hard.
You are a bit slow on the uptake sometimes booney.
Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2012 10:56 amThere is a lot of commitment to going to community functions at weekends and evenings too.Booney wrote: Depends on what you call "work hard". From what I know many pollies do 70+ hours a week, hard work in anyones book.
Slow on the uptake or think you're full of shit. Up to you to decide.
Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2012 12:38 pmBooney wrote:The Sleeping Giant wrote:Booney wrote:The Sleeping Giant wrote:Pollies staff do all the work anyway.
No different to any work place where a boss ( or the pollie in this instance ) is advised / supported by their staff.
Not sure what you're trying to tell us here.
That they don't work hard.
You are a bit slow on the uptake sometimes booney.
Depends on what you call "work hard". From what I know many pollies do 70+ hours a week, hard work in anyones book.
Slow on the uptake or think you're full of shit. Up to you to decide.
Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2012 12:59 pmThe Sleeping Giant wrote:30hrs of work.... maybe, and 40hrs of free dinners, travel and screwing people over.
Luckily, I'm not concerned by what you think.
Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2012 3:46 pmThe Sleeping Giant wrote:30hrs of work.... maybe, and 40hrs of free dinners, travel and screwing people over.
Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2012 8:22 pmBooney wrote:The Sleeping Giant wrote:30hrs of work.... maybe, and 40hrs of free dinners, travel and screwing people over.
Luckily, I'm not concerned by what you think.
I didn't realise you were so close to a politician and understood their work load.
Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2012 2:10 amFEDERAL MPs have been given a $5500 boost to their salary, barely four months after winning a $44,000 pay rise.
The 3 per cent pay rise, quietly handed down this week, is almost double the inflation rate and is being derided by one senior figure as the "pollies' own carbon tax compo".
A backbencher will get an extra $106 a week, taking their salary to $190,550. Along with the March pay rise our 226 MPs are getting an average $49,640 - almost $1000 a week - more than at this time last year.
The politicians' pay bonanza comes at the same time the nation's lowest-paid workers receive an extra $17.10 a week or $890 a year.
Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2012 7:22 amPosted: Wed Jul 04, 2012 9:48 amPosted: Wed Jul 04, 2012 12:12 pmFederal MPs have reportedly received a $5550 pay rise, just three months after pocketing a $44,000 salary boost.
The three per cent pay increase, which is almost double the annual inflation rate, was given by the independent Remuneration Tribunal, News Ltd reported on Wednesday.
Prime Minister Julia Gillard's salary will jump by $14,430 to $495,430 - nearly $130,000 a year or almost $2500 a week more than 12 months ago.
Meanwhile a backbencher will get an extra $106 a week, taking their salary to $190,550.
Combined with the pay rise awarded in March, the politicians are getting $49,640, almost $1000 a week, more than a year ago.
Greens leader Christine Milne criticised the decision.
"When the government is saying it can't afford to give people struggling on Newstart an extra $50 a week to just get up to liveable levels, and the minimum wage has only gone up $17.10 a week, a $100 a week pay rise for politicians is hardly appropriate," Ms Milne told News Ltd.
But former Labor powerbroker turned commentator Graham Richardson said politicians should be paid more.
"If you look around a couple of hundred companies, I wonder how many of them pay their chief less than a half a million dollars?" Mr Richardson said on Seven Network.
"I think the answer would be none.
"The Australian Prime Minister should be getting a minimum of one million dollars and ministers should be up around half a million and you should be taking backbenchers up to 250-300.
"There are 25-year-old kids walking around in merchant banks these days earning $300,000 a year."
Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2012 12:21 pmPosted: Wed Jul 04, 2012 12:25 pmJimmy_041 wrote:I was thinking the same thing about Christine Milne Psyber.
I do agree with Graham Richardson though.
Pay peanuts - you get monkeys.
Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2012 12:48 pmAs I once told Alexander Downer - face to face - I think we made a mistake in 1901 when we agreed to pay politicians.once_were_warriors wrote:Pay more peanuts , get fatter monkeys.Jimmy_041 wrote:I was thinking the same thing about Christine Milne Psyber.
I do agree with Graham Richardson though.
Pay peanuts - you get monkeys.