Bob Brown (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

The Australian Greens do not support the legislation. While we do support the restoration of the ability of the tribunal to deter­mine the base salaries of parlia­mentarians, we do not support the removal of the ability of parliament by disallowance to override the Remuneration Tribunal. Members will recollect that as we went into the global downturn, the last Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, withheld a recommendation by the Remuneration Tribunal to increase parliamentary salaries.