WA the boom state for pollies pay

The Independent Weekly, 29 Dec 2008, DOUG CONWAY

"Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong earns the equivalent of $A3.8 million a year.

That's six times more than Barack Obama will earn when he takes office in the US next month, nine times more than Britain's Gordon Brown and almost 12 times Australia's Kevin Rudd.

Singapore's PM will actually take a 19 per cent pay cut next year in response to the global financial crisis, but should still be able to scrape by."

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