I agree with Oliver. The high "tax fee" salary reflects the prestige of the Office, not the effort of the holder.

We have a Queen, a Governor General, and a Prime Minister.

If we're questioning, "Is the Governor General paid too much?" perhaps we should also be asking - do we really need all those positions?

The money paid to the previous GG's, and the money to be paid to the new GG is obscene.

Foxy,

Touché!

O.

Read your constitution
section-3....ten thousand pounds [annual wage for GG]

the pay rate for polititions is also set in stone
section-48...four hundred pounds a year

so stop your whining

That constitution was wrote when a pound was a promise to pay in pounds of GOLD!

We are getting our govt on the cheap
[no wonder they serve themselves and the big buisness lobby ,

if you cant be bothered to read the rules for the public servants as laid down in our constitution dont be complaining [change the constitution [or shutt up]

Read the constitution and see govt can make rules for peace and good order

[ok it isnt allowed to tax income , nor declare a war [on drug users] ie its own masters]

[public service is meant to serve the public [common-weal[wealth] nor install compulsory super to prop up its big buisness mates ,

or to sell the common wealth bank to multinational bankers [nor instal maritime law in our courts and ignore constitutional law
either
but you get what you get when you vote for frauds[lawyers]

The constitution also says legal money shall be gold or silver coin ,[not fiat paper currency issued by the whim of the fed/reserve bankers] but hey we are getting the gg on the cheap

whats 10,000 times 20 times $1000 us ?
a heck of a lot more than what she is getting!

Its hard keeping a straight face greeting and meeting those colluding us via treason into bankruptsy, so keep quite and pay your tax , back to work you peasents
[soon you get to pay carbon credit as well [expected to raise 83 trillion boost to big buisness [and the stock marketeeers but hey your austrailian

you are young and free
so its time to grow up

Where is the eternal vigelence while govt privatised our gold and silver and sold off the telsta ?

and the bank and the water-rights ,powerstations, and anything else it could turn into cash so they can give out as coorperate welfare to those giving us the two party demon-autocracy.

live with it

It does seem a lot of money, for someone who always gives me the impression that she is a receptionist, in a rather pretentious beauty parlor.

Although highly overpaid & utterley needless the GG's salary is mere peanuts in comparison of what bureaucrats who are even more needless are costing us each year. No-one on the public purse should get paid more than average wage. I find it absolutely sickening on how much is being spent on useless public servants whilst hard working people can't make ends meet. Thanks to unions the useless are costing more each day & the deserving get shafted more each day