Claudia Santini Profile picture
Champagne sipping, egalitarian, leftwing ratbag & Human rights advocate.
Sep 17, 2019 19 tweets 12 min read
Sep 12, 2019 6 tweets 2 min read
20yrs ago we were told that if we wanted quality politicians, we needed to raise their pay.
It's 2019 & the average AU politician is on around 200k p.a.
How does everyone feel about the current quality of Australian politicians?
Should we lobby for them to be on minimum wage? Why don't we demand that politicians have relevant formal qualifications or equivalent in directly correlated workplace experience? They're a bunch of Law graduates. Why not degrees in science, finance, Arts, medicine, environmental, aged & child care, community health, teaching