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Legislative Council - Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)
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Parliamentary Executive Salary Increases

The Hon. C. BONAROS (15:03): I seek leave to ask you a question regarding processes for remuneration determinations.

The PRESIDENT: Leave is granted, but I will have to point out to you that you haven't followed the convention of prior notice for a question, so you ask your question and I will take it on notice.

The Hon. C. BONAROS: I refer to media comments in recent days regarding the review of remuneration and pay increases to clerks of both chambers of this parliament after the tabling of an Auditor-General's report. My questions to you as President are:

1. Can you outline for the benefit of all members in this chamber how that decision was made and by whom in each respective chamber?

2. Can you indicate what role, if any at all, the JPSC had in those determinations?

3. Do you consider it appropriate for this chamber to find out about the pay increases months after the fact and only as a result of the tabling of that Auditor-General's report and despite there being reporting mechanisms available to presiding officers for such reporting?

4. Will you and your counterpart, the Speaker, now be reporting to members of this place on the process undertaken in respect of this matter, including details of any reviews and the decisions that those determinations were based on?

The PRESIDENT (15:05): As I said, I will take it on notice.

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