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A four-year wage freeze for state MPs has been scrapped. Now Qld MPs will have their pay packets boosted by thousands of dollars over the next 18 months.
Taxpayers have footed the bill for ballooning ministerial wages at a time when businesses were having to shut their doors and sack staff. New figures have revealed the total ministerial wages blew out from $14 million from the July to December period in 2019 to $15.5 million for the same period last year (2020). This is a more than 10 per cent hike when CPI in Brisbane was 1 per cent in December. But the Palaszczuk Government yesterday defended the hike, with a spokesman saying salary costs reflected flow-on pay rises for public servants which came in before the wage freeze took effect on July 1 last year.
Ministerial wages and costs blow out by millions noosanews.com.au - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from noosanews.com.au Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.