Senate estimates revealed that Julianne Stewart, a speechwriter for former prime ministers, was hired by government on a two-year contract valued at $620,000.
The speechwriter contracted at $620,000 over two years for Services Australia spends the majority of her time writing speeches for NDIS Minister Bill Shorten, but fellow minister Matt Keough insists the former Labor leader still writes his own zingers.that Julianne Stewart, who wrote speeches for former prime ministers Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard, Tony Abbott and Malcolm Turnbull, was hired by Services Australia on a two-year contract, set to end in September, valued at $620,000.
“ does do work for the agency, she belongs to the agency. She has management reporting and arrangements through to the agency, through to the communications division. She participates in the weekly team meetings with the communications division for which I’m responsible for.” “It gets worse, because there were already two speechwriters within a team of 201 media and communication staff members. So this is just extraordinary,” Taylor told Canberra radio station 2CC on Tuesday.A federal MP’s base salary is now $225,742. Officials from Services Australia confirmed speechwriters within the public service are paid a maximum of $140,000 a year and the agency has about 200 people in its communications team.
Stewart’s LinkedIn states she has also written speech for former Qantas chief exeuctive Alan Joyce and that she is “now writing across the spectrum of the portfolio of Bill Shorten”. Burke also said at a time of labour shortages, professions in demand get more money than they would otherwise.
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