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let them eat cake .....

let them eat cake .....

Professor Ian Harper is the part-time chair of the Fair Pay Commission, the body which increased minimum wages by a derisory amount last year (a whole $5.32 a week for those privileged bastards on $700 a week). 

It turns out he got a pay rise himself last year which was a bit more than the amounts his Commission awarded. 

The Commonwealth Remuneration Tribunal lifted his pay packet from $81,445 to $119,830 for the part-time job. 

The June bonus came as he and other Fair Pay commissioners were deliberating on a wage rise for 1.5 million low-paid employees. They awarded an extra $10.26 for minimum wage workers - the worst result in a decade - lifting their pay packets to $522.12 a week. The adjustment came into force in October. 

But in an unexpected bonus for Prof Harper, his own pay rise was backdated to March.  

Fair Pay 

Those who might be tempted to question Harper’s appreciation of life’s brutal realities for the nation’s struggling working poor will doubtless be comforted by his assertion that his Anglican faith highlights his concern for the poor & the vulnerable. 

Following his appointment to the Tribunal by the rattus government in 2005, the good Professor told the ABC’s Eleanor Hall that his Anglican faith “…. brings me a set of values that I carry into my life, Fran, and it's a set of values which emphasises, as you'd appreciate, the importance of looking very carefully at the best interests of the poor and vulnerable. I mean that's what the Lord Jesus Christ stood for in many ways, and so I count it as a great privilege as a Christian to be able to work for the people in this particular area.”  

So reassuring for the meek & humble …..

the great protector of the poor .....

Opposition treasury spokesman Malcolm Turnbull has described the Prime Minister as gutless for not expressing his view on what the increase to Australia's minimum wage should be. 

The Opposition says the Government was advised by the Treasury Department to call for an $18 a week increase, but did not follow that advice in a submission to the annual minimum wage review. 

But Treasury secretary Ken Henry today issued a statement saying his department had offered no such advice. 

Mr Turnbull says the Government should table all the briefings it has had from Treasury.

"This is very fishy, the only way we will know what really happened is if the Government produces all of the Treasury advice, they have got to table all of the advice," he said. 

"It's no good having a carefully worded statement here and a few lines out of context there, let's find out what that advice is." 

PM 'Only Pretends' To Care About Low Income Earners

yes, our friend Malcolm the millionaire is right to suggest there is something 'fishy' going on .....

Just ask Professor Ian Harper, part-time chair of the Fair Pay Commission ....

As the above article attests, it screwing the poor & looking after the privileged is something that all givernments do, regardless of who is holding the purse strings.