Just heard that the Morrison Govt ruled out pay cuts for politicians & senior Public Servants during this present Pandemic crisis.
It's one thing the contract a virus & another to commit (political) suicide !

Indy look what the "hated one" across the ditch id doing.

"New Zealand’s prime minister has said she (Jacinda Ardern) and other ministers will take a 20% pay cut lasting six months to show solidarity with those affected by the coronavirus outbreak, as the death toll continues to rise.

Jacinda Ardern said it was important the government’s most highly paid politicians show “leadership and solidarity” with workers on the frontline and those who had lost their livelihoods. Ardern, government ministers and public service chief executives will take the cut for six months, effective immediately.

The pay cut will reduce Ardern’s salary by $47,104. Cabinet ministers would take a cut of NZ$26,900 each, while deputy prime minister Winston Peters’ salary would be cut by $33,473."

NOW INDY, HOW ARE YOU GOING AT ANSWERING MY QUESTIONS. They are not difficult, but you are trying to sneak off because I called you out and showed you up to be WRONG!

"Just heard that the Morrison Govt ruled out pay cuts for politicians & senior Public Servants during this present Pandemic crisis".

Yes. According to our Chairman - oops, Prime Minister- he and his colleagues, along with public servants, are just as important as ICU doctors and nurses! The bloke is going to need some serious watching and monitoring after the Chinese virus crisis. His recently invented Xi-like powers have gone to his head. Prime Minister-for life on the horizon?

Meanwhile, unemployment of real, necessary people, is up to 16% thanks the big knee-jerk; businesses are shut, many never to open again. All for 61 people so far, who who were already on their last legs. All because Morrison listened to non-practising, government doctors, who have their one-track minds set on the medical side with no credence given to the awful human suffering they have created for about 600,000 healthy people who want to work. I wonder if the goons will do the same thing next winter, when 3,000 people could drop off the perch with the flu, as they did two years ago. There should be a day of reckoning for these 'experts' and politician when this is over.

ttbn, it appears you are not in favour of the Governments lock-down policies or its financial support measures, in conjunction with the Labor/LNP states. Several of the Forums 'Usual Suspects' are of that mind set. Do you notice there is no antipathy between the Commonwealth and the States regardless of the individual states political persuasion, in fact its back slapping all round.

Unemployment of a realistic 20% is inevitable, don't be fooled the 'Jobkeeper' program is the hidden unemployed, and at 'New Start' rates of pay it would be good night ScumO' at the next election. The doubling of the dole payment and calling it 'Jobseeker' was a political measure, as are most of the governments fiscal measures. How long they can keep it up, is a good question. The Australian economy will contract by a 6% minimum in the next twelve months, possibly more, that is sizeable by any measure. The Coalitions "Holy Grail", and the conservative mind set of a budget surplus was always somewhat illusionary and simply another political manoeuvre to foster the false notion that the Coalition is somehow better financial managers than the other mob. Given the same conditions, the Coalition will act exactly the same as the Labor party on these things.

Paul1405,
I agree with Adern in case you forgot what I proposed many times here on OLO. Why, even you are against pay cuts only a few posts back !