Politicians have received 3 substantial Pay rises in 16 Months

As we all know Labor is the Party of the Battler.  They run around the country either as Politicians or as Union officials and scream out the injustice of the low income earners, the Pensioners and looking after Australian workers.   In fact they sound impressive maybe I haven’t given them the credit they deserve.

However, Labor ensured Politicians got  a pay-rise of between 31% and 48%.  At the same time they gave Public servants a 3% pay-rise and the rest of Australia received a generous 4.1%.  However the politicians ensured they received their pay rise before the 3% Public Servants pay rise which politicians also were able to claim.

This supposedly was to ensure they would not fall behind in the pay structures. While 3 % sounds like a trifle to someone on $80,000 which would give this person $2400 a year extra or $6.81 a day. This amount gave our PM who is on her salary of $495,000 an extra $15,000 a year or incredibly $42.61 a day.  This means her pay rise of 3% meant her salary increased by the amount of a unemployment payment in Australia who she and her Cabinet believes is enough to live on.

This is the face of this Socialist Government, it happily grabs the money off all of us, and redistributes that wealth among themselves, they have no right to call themselves a grassroots community organisation, Party members are the core of the Labor Party. Party members and local branches play a central role in innovative policy development and passionately working in the community to spread labor values. for it is now rightly proven that this ALP is only in this for what they can get out of it.

It is their third pay rise in 16 months which has delivered a typical backbencher a pay boost of $54,220 – more than $1000 a week extra since March last year. 

Julia Gillard was the first prime minister to receive a salary above $500,000, with an extra $11,908 taking her wage to $507,338.  Kevin Rudd is now earning $2709 a week more after the combined impact of the three pay rises.

Opposition Leader Tony Abbott’s pay rises by $8473 to $360,990. He is more than $1900 a week better off than 16 months ago. 

The Remuneration Tribunal today announced MPs would get a 2.4 per cent pay rise and said they could be in store for more. It will review salaries in December and has left open the chance of another pay rise before the next annual review.

Thus. Mr Conde, Mr Prescott and Ms Segal you are now seen as a Tribunal that would be easily influenced with your links to companies that rely on Government cooperation especially with the introduction of a Carbon Tax, and leaves Australians wondering how much extra YOU received?

Worse is certainly going to occur as the members of this Tribunal will still be there in 2015.  Mr Rudd won’t want this to change, and Mr Abbott won’t stop this from occurring as he has shown already.  It is our money being spent for their wages and we have a say in it when Rudd stops playing games and calls an election.  However with a record number of new Parties, make sure you know where their preferences are going as I have reviewed half of these parties so far and 50 – 60%  appear to be preferencing to the Left.

Please be careful that this ALP machine of Lies and Deception don’t sneak in the back door yet again.