NSW One Nation leader Mark Latham said he voted against the NSW public servant pay freeze in the Upper House because you can’t say people like nurses, firefighters and policemen “are heroes and then turn them into zeroes”. You can’t tell the nurses who were hard at work “during the early weeks of the health emergency” they won’t be having a wage increase.
“You can’t tell the firefighters in January they saved us and then turn them into a budget saver”. You can’t tell the police who are “administering martial law” and “shooing Australians off the beaches and parks” to take a wage freeze. “The process was bad, the economics was bad, the priorities were bad”. Mr Latham said he voted to “send the government back to the drawing board” and “hopefully the government will come back with a plan B”.
One of your poorer decisions at a time like this Mark!!
How do you deal with the other bludgers & the self appointed rulers.
With hundreds of thousands of job losses they are not going to miss $40/w for 12mths $85k pa,you made a political expedient choice(face value) not a common sense one for the state which will have to borrow to get projects moving & stimulate the economy in NSW.
Fair enough.
LNP right wing thieving bastards
Biff or is it Lardarse
The spinless politicians created this mess by their unjustified lockdown laws, and now because they didn't think it through they want to punish the public servants. How about they consider giving up all their own wages for a few years and show some real leadership.
I lost my job RealMarkLatham through these lockdowns. I'm a zero with no pay and no payrise. Thanks GladysB Dom_Perrottet
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