TAXPAYERS are set to give two Coalition frontbenchers an extra $45,000 a year pay which legislation says they're not actually entitled to.
It solves a sensitive problem for Opposition Leader Tony Abbott whose shadow ministry is too big.
In December the independent Remuneration Tribunal decided that shadow ministers should receive a premium on their pay of just short of $45,000 to take into account their extra duties.
However, the number of shadow ministers was limited to the numbers in the Government's ministry.


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The comment echoed Ms Gillard's line from Question Time yesterday - that Mr Abbott "has an unhealthy kind of obsession with the so-called faceless men in the Labor Party - what he really should be obsessed about is the useless men sitting behind him".

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