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MarkB, I was replying to Weg who wrote "So lets try and put this into perspective... state premiers across the country are only earning the equivalent to Band 2 to Band 3. The vast majority of the politicians beneath them are earning salaries on par with thousands of other public servants who...

Completely irrelevant. Politicians earn way more than PS in Qld, which is where I am and where the current outrage over large pay hikes is centred. I don't care about what happens in Canberra. No way are politicians "on incomes very much in line with public servant pay scales".

Backbenchers in Qld were earning $133,804 in 2011.

I can't comment on the APS and their 'bands', except that I have a friend in the APS who earns about 30% more than she would here in Qld. Not too many PS in Qld earn close to 100,000 a year. Our politicians do very well in comparison.

Speaking as a public servant myself, it's untrue to say "many public servants already get higher salaries than politicians do". Most of us nett less per year than Newman's recent pay rise. A few senior ones do but not the vast bulk. Meanwhile our friend the severely disabled chap is now...