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Australia’s top CEOs earn 132 times average wage. Matthew Elmas and The New Daily

Want to earn as much as Australia’s highest-paid CEOs? Just buckle down and work hard for another 2332 years.

That’s how long it would take the average Australian worker to earn what Afterpay bosses Nick Molnar and Anthony Eisen did last financial year.

Each raked in more than $100 million from their buy now, pay later empire – setting a fresh record for Australia’s top-paid bosses.

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The widening Pay Gap isn't a fantasy with Australian inflation about to hit 7%

The middleclass Public service unites and strikes while the traditional construction worker unions and tradies watch on and the LNP  writes them off as Marxists.

Teachers, nurses, midwives, and railworkers have now spent years on the frontlines of the ongoing pandemic. In return for putting their health on the line, the state government is rewarding them with ongoing poor conditions and stagnant wages.

Source: New South Wales Public Sector Workers Are Striking Against the Cost-of-Living Crisis

The city of the future will be denser and greener as western parts of inner Melbourne become the new Fitzroy and Collingwood and pedestrians and bikes increasingly take priority.

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Go west: Council unveils 20-year plan for inner Melbourne

 

Push Polling by the IPA

POLL: MAJORITY OF AUSTRALIANS DEMAND NEW COAL-FIRED POWER STATIONS proclaimed the media release from the Institute of Public Affairs on Thursday. Yes, it was scary enough to rate capital letters.

“Australia’s Great Energy Crisis is a direct result of the elite’s policy of net zero emissions by 2050. The political class’s obsession with unreliable renewables continues to push reliable and affordable baseload power generation off the grid and makes us more vulnerable,” proclaimed Daniel Wild, deputy executive director of the Institute.

Source: Lies, damned lies

 While the LNP and the IPA continue to push for coal fired power plants like tobacco companies do cigarettes the UK is feeling the sting

Britain’s Met Office weather forecaster has declared a national emergency, with temperatures early next week predicted to approach – and possibly exceed – record highs.“Exceptional, perhaps record-breaking, temperatures are likely on Monday, then again on Tuesday,” the Met Office said on their website.

National emergency in Britain as the mercury soars to near-record levels | The New Daily