What the government did was not fair. Bring on the republic. I’d be happy with Mostyn as the first president.
Look, I am as irritated as the rest of you that we still have a governor-general in this country. Bring on the republic ASAP. And I’m even more irritated by the appointment of Sam Mostyn, now Samantha, as governor-general because she is way too good for that gig. Her contributions to Australian life go well beyond the parade of military blokes we’ve had so far.
Think that’s too much money? Not reasonable to equate the job to the chief justice? Sure. But the governor-general is, in practice, the head of state and occasionally sacks the government. That’s the bit that’s ridiculous for 21st century Australia – not the wage we are paying for the position.“Where, in the past, a Governor-General has been the recipient of other Commonwealth entitlements – such as a judicial pension – the annual salary has been adjusted accordingly.
Five of the past six G-Gs have been in receipt of some kind of Commonwealth or military pension. Has anyone bothered to do the freaking maths here? What’s a fat military pension? Could be half a mill, couldn’t it? Everyone else has to divest their investments and even their super. If someone had told me to divest myself of super at Mostyn’s age to become governor-general, I would have told them where to stick their gig.
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