NO But I do think they get far too much thrown at them.
I too doubt those doing the throwing are equipt to do that.
Yes we have duds we have dills but if we want to raise the standard we should raise the pay.
To levels they could earn outside the house.
As a safety thing how ever we should introduce laws that give mandatory prison terms and loss of all personal property.
For such ads the NSW filth.

NO But I do think they get far too much thrown at them.
I too doubt those doing the throwing are equipt to do that.
Yes we have duds we have dills but if we want to raise the standard we should raise the pay.
To levels they could earn outside the house.
As a safety thing how ever we should introduce laws that give mandatory prison terms and loss of all personal property.
For such as the NSW filth.

But, a the end of the day, you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.
rehctub,
Well, seeing that we're talking about australian politicians then yes we do get monkeys considering that we're paying them with the South pacific Peso.

To the best of my recollection, Paul Hogan was the first to advance the argument of “if we offer more money, we might attract a best class of applicants”. That was in his second appearance on the Willesee Show, when he was trying to become a COMEDIAN.
Sadly, our pollies of course leapt onto the idea, and for the last few decades their pay increases have out paced average Australians' egregiously.
The result? We've never seen a more self-serving, out of touch, so called “Representatives” in the history of this country.
The experiment's been done. It didn't work. End it.
Here's a crazy idea: let's vote for people who's primary goal is to serve their country, rather than themselves.
Incidentally, I love it when politicians themselves advance this notion of "better pay, better pollies".
Does that mean the current bunch of under paid no hopers will stand down, in favour of these "better" ones?

As someone who has had contact with politicians and aspiring politicians from all sides of politics I have never met one who said "I'm in it for the money". That's not to say polys should not be adequately rewarded for their efforts. In general I find people who want to enter politics, from all sides, committed with a sense of civic duty.
If the remuneration is inadequate you do get two kinds of people, one those of lesser ability and two those of "independent" means, as was the case in Victorian England when politicians were not paid at all, and only the conservative landed gentry could afford to be in Parliament. If that was applied today we would have a hung parliament with Clive Palmer on one side of the chamber and Malcolm Turnbull on the other.

Paul,
I think we're in for a future of hung parliaments led by millionaires anyway, don't forget that the Rudd family are extremely wealthy too.
Potential candidates are definitely in it for the money in the sense that they make connections in Canberra which they can then use to enrich themselves after their term is up or they retire.
As for the British, how much money did Tony Blair make while in office, aside from his salary? Wasn't it in the order of 30 million pounds?