UNITED Australia Party federal leader Craig Kelly has proposed a bill that will cut politicians salaries during lockdowns.
The private member’s bill called “We’re All in This Together Act 2021” seeks to reduce politicians’ salaries to $750 per week while States or territories are in lockdown.
- United Australia Party to make sure we’re all truly in it together.
- Politicians & senior bureaucrats “need to cut their salaries to the same $750pw”.
- Former PM Tony Abbott supports call for MP pay cuts.
“All MPs need to take a pay cut to show their support,” Mr Kelly wrote in a social media post earlier this month.
“As leader of the United Australia Party, I’ll make sure we’re all truly in it together.”
CONSTITUENTS
Mr Kelly told the St George & Sutherland Shire Leader newspaper that if those who make decisions need to go through the same financial distress the public does, “perhaps they will think harder before making decisions that negatively impact on constituents.”
“If governments are going to continue to deny Australians the freedom to earn a living or prevent them from opening their business, and politicians expect families to survive on $750 a week for an extended period, then politicians and senior bureaucrats, including myself, need to set an example and cut their salaries to the same $750,” he said.
Mr Kelly is currently looking for a seconder among the Parliament’s MPs, who can help to introduce the bill this season.
The bill will call on support from all shire and State Liberals and ALP members.
ABBOTT
If it passes federally, the legislation will then be introduced at a State level and will be dedicated to truck drivers and asks for “No Requirement for Medical Treatment (Including Vaccination) Without Consent”.
Similarly, former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has raised the issue of temporarily reducing the salaries of MPs and public servants.
“One of the most grating phrases of this whole pandemic has been ‘we’re all in this together because frankly, we haven’t been in it together,” Abbott has told the Institute of Public Affairs.
“We have got a private sector calamity happening and … no public servant has lost his or her job, no public servant has had his or her pay cut. In fact, in some States, their pay has dramatically increased,” he said, referring to Victoria, in which politicians’ pay has increased as private sector jobs are lost and people experiencing pay cuts.
Mr Abbott also pointed out that in New Zealand, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, sitting members of the NZ parliament and senior public servants had taken 20 per cent pay cuts for six months.
“The sensible thing to do would be to follow Jacinda Ardern and temporarily reduce the salaries of MPs, and public servants earning, say, over $150,000 a year,” Mr Abbott said.PC
Q: What do you call a $100,000 pay cut for politicians?
A: A good start.
Agree, but too little to late.
See why Tony was ousted and Craig is thorn in the side of many ???? Speaking out and not following the leftist herd is a threat to these vultures .
Craig Kelly is a genuine Australian hero of the ages. Men like Craig are inspired by God. Thank you Craig for everything that you are doing for freedom. Thank you Clive.
Craig Kelly is a pest who invades my privacy with text messages I can’t block.
But at least you getting informed and that is the whole point .