If this is true

[the_hawk*]

If this is true its a bloody disgrace and an insult to the Australian people.

How does Toni think he is entitled to be paid so much more than any other primeminister in the world.

Talk about feeling entitled and its not like he is even doing an average job.

https://www.businessvibes.com/blog/How-Much-Salaries-World-Leaders-Get-Paid

[the_bob_delusion]

$400,000 that's pittence for a world leader. 

[polksaladallie]

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@*julia*2010 wrote:

How does Toni think he is entitled to be paid so much more than any other primeminister in the world.

not even close

http://www.richestlifestyle.com/highest-paid-political-leaders-in-the-world/

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If anyone is sensitive, don't look at the pic of TA in this link.

[gleee58]

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@debra9275 wrote:

though abbott and co, tried to make out 'they had decided to take a pay cut" and were tightening their belts like they were telling everyone else to do, The decision to freeze MP's wages had absolutely nothing to do with them, it was a tribunal decision

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Thanks Debra, I remembered there was some dodgy with the claim  😄

[gleee58]

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@polksaladallie wrote:

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@*julia*2010 wrote:

How does Toni think he is entitled to be paid so much more than any other primeminister in the world.

not even close

http://www.richestlifestyle.com/highest-paid-political-leaders-in-the-world/

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If anyone is sensitive, don't look at the pic of TA in this link.

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We should start sending abbott messages with a note highlighting the Singapore PM's salary. He might just pack up and bully his way into the Singapore PM's job and we could be rid of him for good.

[go-tazz]

Because they basically set their own wages,(it's supposed to be set by an individual tribunal but there is

probably a high chance that they are paid by the government in some way and their pay rate goes up when

they up the government salaries).

Remember this pay rise on top of the whopping pay rise they received less then a year before it:

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/anger-over-mps-pay-rise-20120704-21gfu.html

What each got in 2013 :

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-07-01/off-the-hustings-james-glenday-politicians-pay/4790894

Somewhere along the line the whole payment system to the government has to be be brought before some sort

commission which has no links to the government.

That should include the ludicrous pension system that's in place for them.

They keep harping that it should be based on comparison to the CEO's of other big companies but fail to take

into account that those CEO's actually do their job correctly and they don't get a life time pension.

Australian politicians seem to be the only "employees" that get paid a lifetime pension after getting the sack

because they "served" their time,

[the_great_she_elephant]

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@gkam2 wrote:

Careful, your bias is showing, try complaining about the $4.5 million to the guy who runs the P.O.into the ground.

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I don't recall anyone ever suggesting the CEO of Australia Post deserved to be paid $4.5million. The argument was that whatever he was paid, any private donation he chose to make out of his salary was nobody's business but his own - maybe you don't understand the difference.

[***super_nova***]

CEOs get paid ridiculous money, but they run businesses, which can afford to pay them that.  PM is just a public servant, and is paid from our taxes.

[gleee58]

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@go-tazz wrote:

They keep harping that it should be based on comparison to the CEO's of other big companies but fail to take

into account that those CEO's actually do their job correctly and they don't get a life time pension.

Australian politicians seem to be the only "employees" that get paid a lifetime pension after getting the sack

because they "served" their time,

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It's debatable that the CEOs always do their jobs correctly.  They seem to go from one job to another without penalty even when they screw over the company they've been charged with managing.  

This gov had  no qualms about hiring Bill Morrow knowing he has to face court in the US for causing a few deaths which cost his earlier employer massive fines, at the same time as they were pursuing Rudd over fewer deaths that occurred when the dodgy practitioners abused the insulation scheme, causing the deaths of their workers.  

And remember the Telstra asbestos problems that caused dramas for NBN Co?  Yep, you guessed it, the person responsible for that mess was rewarded (by this govt) with a nice new job and a nice new pay packet at NBN Co.

[Anonymous]

how much do you think the prime minister

of australia should be paid?  what would be

a fair amount and why?

[Anonymous]

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@the_bob_delusion wrote:

$400,000 that's pittence for a world leader. 

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agree

Who’s overpaid and who’s underpaid? How do the salaries of well-heeled Australians compare with one another.

http://thenewdaily.com.au/money/2014/03/10/australias-overpaid-underpaid-workers/