I just despair each and every day. So much for magnanimous gestures. Turns out all was not as it seemed.
Remuneration Tribunal decided in April against wage increases for MPs and top public servants.
IT was sold as a last-minute decision by the Government to freeze wages of its Federal MPs to ensure they were hit by their own chunk of Budget pain. But that wasn’t quite right.
As it turns out, the body which sets those wages had already decided pay rates would be untouched.
The independent Remuneration Tribunal made a preliminary move in April to not recommend rises for MPs (base salary $195,000) and senior public servants for the 12 months from midyear.
I reckon the deceit will end in three-and-a-bit years. What a pack of self-interested drongos.
