09-02-2024, 12:42 PM
I hasten to add that politicians are fair game in the sense that they should take responsibility to govern instead of turning so much of government over to that other Aussie favourite, the totally flawed and nonsensical concept of employing an independent ‘expert’ body to ‘adjudicate.’ This is the notion that government is as simple an a Saturday arvo footy match. The simple minded acceptance of this idea is much loved by the mandarins as it creates loads of highly paid PS jobs. Also attractive to some politicians, in 1988 Labor Transport Minister Gareth Evans got rid of that scary responsibility of aviation by creating CASA. We all know how that’s gone.
By the same token we don’t pay our MPs anything like a proper remuneration for the level of responsibility that we expect them to take. Compare their measily $230k with business execs., or more to the point the dozens of senior PS heads who are paid way more than the PM’s salary and upwards of $1million pa.
By the same token we don’t pay our MPs anything like a proper remuneration for the level of responsibility that we expect them to take. Compare their measily $230k with business execs., or more to the point the dozens of senior PS heads who are paid way more than the PM’s salary and upwards of $1million pa.