7 February

I'll be on the outer with this, but I think politician's entitlements is a bit of a non-issue. The reason politicians have things like generous super and entitlements is that politics is effectively a part-time job, a person may serve 5 or 6 years, and then have to return to the job market. That's quite a long time to be out of a particular industry or job, and it would be difficult to get people to go into parliament if they basically had to give up their career to do it. And yes all the same arguments apply to something like motherhood. But attacking politics and politicians is what gave us Trump. There are corporate interests who cost the country orders of magnitude more than politicians, and for much less gain.