Since politicians are really only public servants elected by the sheeple, it stands to reason that the sheeple as employers should have total control of the conditions of work & renumeration of their servants. Currently they have a convenient little rort going thanks to a tame governor general who appoints known politician-friendly drones to an ostensibly 'independent' renumeration tribunal. Predictably, there has **NEVER** been a case of a wage rise refused, disagreement between the parties, or even a hint of a mention of productivity. Furthermore, attempts to open discussion re legitimacy or otherwise with the GG, renumeration tribunal, politicians or anyone else for that matter have all been carefully ignored. Hmmmmmm

I watched "Q and A," last night and listened to
Clive Palmer and Bob Katter and others on the
panel speaking about the woes of Queenslanders.
About the cuts to the front-line staff in
hospitals, about the cuts to other basic services
and there were so many things that we in Victoria
could identify with. And things will probably get
even worse - depending on who wins the next federal
election. Strange though no one mentioned any salary
cuts for the politicians while everything else was
being cut...

To be fair to Big Clive, he has at least promised to slash handouts to has-been bloodsucking parasites. Obviously that doesn't go anywhere near far enough but I guess its at least a start. I do have a real problem with antics like the $500,000 pay grab by the red-headed witch, the deafening silence from the RAbbott & the subsequent $5500 'clean air' package. The retirement of GoAnna the Blight in Queensland (even though she'd won her seat of South Brisbane) is worth mentioning because she stood to lose the higher retirement money paid to premiers. Grubby tricks like that should result in immediate loss of all benefits. In case anyone suggests I'm on the side of Newman / Seeney / Nicholls, those parasites rigged the financial inquiry to exaggerate the extent of the financial poo left by the Blighters, then appointed cronies to highly paid key positions for which they were unqualified & sacked most of the public servants who actually did something whilst retaining the totally unproductive higher paid 'chiefs'.