{"id":31739,"date":"2015-08-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/premier-weatherill-says-low-salaries-to-blame-for-travel-expenses\/"},"modified":"2015-08-25T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-25T00:00:00","slug":"premier-weatherill-says-low-salaries-to-blame-for-travel-expenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/premier-weatherill-says-low-salaries-to-blame-for-travel-expenses\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier: low salaries to blame for travel expenses"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"line-height: 1.428571429;\">A prickly exchange unfolded on FIVEAA Breakfast when SA Premier Jay Weatherill suggested low salaries are the reason some politicians are claiming hefty travel expenses.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>\u201cBecause nobody\u2019s been brave enough to actually say that politicians should be paid a decent remuneration, what\u2019s grown up is a series of allowances and other side benefits,\u201d Mr Weatherill said.<\/p>\n<p>Asked by David Penberthy whether he was suggesting politicians were accessing perks because their base salary was too low \u2013 while the average South Australian wage is $39,000 \u2013 the Premier was blunt.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah. Basically. I think that\u2019s exactly what\u2019s grown up over the years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you frankly think that you want to attract the best and the brightest to actually be involved in public office\u2026 you\u2019re kidding yourself if you think that paying people $39,000 is going to achieve that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Penbo put it to the premier: \u201cIf you\u2019re arguing pollies deserve a pay rise, I think you\u2019re the one who\u2019s kidding yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr Weatherill said that\u2019s not what he was saying, but added:&nbsp;\u201cI do believe that we need to look at this whole system.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>LISTEN to Jay Weatherill here:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/rowey-bicks\/dark-horse-could-bob-up-for-patrick-dangerfield-says-caroline-wilson\">DARK HORSE COULD MAKE A PLAY FOR DANGERFIELD, SAYS CARO WILSON<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/david-mark-jane\/david-penberthy-on-tony-burke-s-2-2-million-dollar-travel-bill\">PENBO BREAKS DOWN TONY BURKE&#8217;S $2.2M&nbsp;TRAVEL EXPENSES<\/a><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A prickly exchange unfolded on FIVEAA Breakfast when SA Premier Jay Weatherill suggested low salaries are the reason some politicians are claiming hefty travel expenses. \u201cBecause nobody\u2019s been brave enough to actually say that politicians should be paid a decent remuneration, what\u2019s grown up is a series of allowances and other side benefits,\u201d Mr Weatherill [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":21710,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[244,231],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-31739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-david-and-will","category-show"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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