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Pay MP's more for best & brightest?

Posted by: David Prior | 26 August, 2010 - 11:50 AM

Is it time to pay our MP's more to get the best and brightest?

The old saying pay peanuts, you know what you get. Tim Webster expresses his concerns about the lack of talent we find in our parliament. Is it time to pay our MP's more money to get the best & brightest into parliament?

Blog comments

Can't believe no-one has mentioned the secret pay rise the pollies gave themselves as reported in the Herald Sun on Thuresday

Dianne Friday 27 August, 2010 - 8:20 PM
Fully agree Tim why not get rid of state governments, and have non elected officials assisting in government positions, but they must be Australian. The A.C.T. has only a two tier system of government, our territory government which is nothing but a jumped up local council and the federal government, I am sure the rest of Australia could work the same way.

Phillip Houghton Friday 27 August, 2010 - 11:41 AM
Politicians have been postulating for years the notion that you pay peanuts you get monkeys - hence the high rates of pay they now receive which in my view is more than adequate for what they do! Given these high pay rates they enjoy, we taxpayers conversely enjoy, by and large, monkeys as politicians.

Sam Friday 27 August, 2010 - 8:10 AM
No.We are paying them enough. In 1975 they were paid about the same salary as a grade 5 public servant (nsw). By 2007 failed politicians both state and federal were paid way, way above the maximum public service grade salary of $127,000 per annum. They utterly do not deserve that salary. A Civil Service Commission or Public Service Board made up of apolitical members drawn from the private sector should be immediately formed to regulate useless politicians' salary, allowances, industrial conditions et al. Little wonder the rotten labor party abolished public service boards right across Australia to gain control of the money, advice, et al. How utterly sad fellow Australians. More controls are urgently needed over our useless, incompetent, baleful, rotten politicians!

Sam Thursday 26 August, 2010 - 7:27 PM