PRIME Minister Albanese has been labelled “vindictive” by One Nation and the Coalition after cutting MPs and Senators’ staffing numbers.
A furious Pauline Hanson says One Nation has denied its fair share of advisers despite doubling its Senate seats, accusing Albanese of a “capricious and politically motivated” move.
Senator Hanson and her colleague Malcolm Roberts were allocated two senior advisers each in the previous term but after One Nation won two extra seats at the May election, Albanese has allocated the party four adviser positions – just one for each senator.
“Adequate staffing only applies if the prime minister doesn’t deem you a political threat,” Hanson told media. “I will seek an urgent meeting with the prime minister in an effort to renegotiate the staff One Nation are allocated.”
Due to some treasonous provision in the Members of Parliament (Staff) Act 1984 (passed by the Fabian PM Bob Hawke), the Prime Minister has discretion over the allocation of personal staff, which are typically more senior advisers who assist MPs with policy development, political strategy and media.
With federal parliament set to resume on July 22nd, Albanese’s staffing allocations came very late for opposition and crossbench MPs for the next term.
Albanese informed the Opposition Leader Sussan Ley on Monday night that the Opposition would lose about 20 personal staff roles, including 16 senior adviser positions.
The Coalition had 106 personal staff positions before the election, 39 of which were based in the former Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s office. The decision was based on the Coalition’s reduced numbers after it lost 15 lower house seats and three Senate spots at the May 3rd election.
However, contrary to early rumours that Labor cut no staff, Albanese reportedly cut 10 of the government’s own positions, reducing its staffing numbers despite gaining 21 new MPs and senators at the election.
The government had a horde of 499 staffing positions in the last parliament, including 65 in Albanese’s office.
The Coalition argues it is entitled to 21% of the government’s allocation under a longstanding parliamentary convention, which would equate to about 102 positions for Ley’s team. However they ended up with about 85.
The Shadow Special Minister of State, James McGrath, called Albanese’s decision “vindictive and nasty” and an “attack on accountability”.
The Greens’ staffing numbers were also cut from 19 to 14 after the loss of three seats and defection of Dorinda Cox reduced their numbers in federal parliament from 15 to 11.
Several independent MPs and senators confirmed told The Guardian Australia that their staffing numbers were unchanged from the previous term.
The Prime Minister’s office, in a statement, said it was “routine practice to revise staff allocations in a new parliamentary term” and staffing allocations were made based “on a range of considerations, including demonstrated need and individual circumstances”.
Commenter RM
Politicians these days are going for the lowest common denominator
Look at that nice Susan Ley:
“We need more women like that Teals Party that stole our voters”
“We will have all the same WEF policies as ALP and Teals Party but the one with the most women shall win”
Woman thinking: “hmm that nice Susan Ley seems nice”
Pauline Hanson operating on a similar level
brianajnz said – “… What in the hell is going on…”
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Who was the genius who advised Pauline to vote yes to allow mercenaries and foreign troops on Australian soil with immunity no less. When confronted about that in Tasmania a couple of years ago, all she could do was sputter how it was important and shut down the discussion. Important to who? The Victorians shot by rubber bullets would likely disagree. She can clearly point out what’s wrong, but hasn’t a foggy clue how to fix anything. She lost my vote when she voted for that bill. She’ll not get it back until she seeks and obtains its repeal!
Commenter ajnz
Look on youtube or tiktok and find Malcolm Roberts, the most effective senator in the whole parliament, who came to us via Pauline Hanson’s efforts. Now she has picked up an extra 2 senators she has raised her credibility above all the other minor parties. In fact the ALP only won about 34% ( from memory ) of first preferences. Most senators are just a waste of space. Others, such as Sarah Hanson Young, Clare Oneill, and Andrew Bragg, come to us via Swissy’s WEF.
If Hanson quit parliament the taxpayer would not need to fund any of her advisers.
What have they achieved to date.
What are the great noble things One Nation has achieved.
Launched in 1997. Been around nearly 30 years.
Say one honourable policy per year equals 30 in round figures.
Can anyone name 5.
I cant recall 1.
What in the hell is going on.
Sure you need more political advisors, Pauline! One to advise you not to vote on important issues, and the extra one is to tell you that sitting on the fence is the right thing to do!
So Pauline Hanson reckons her One Nation Pty Ltd should be entitled to a greater corporate welfare allocation from the grubbernment? What for? To promote greater stakeholder nutrition from our corporate democracy?
Somehow I don’t reckon Hanson Girl and Hansom Boy are likely to be quite on the same page as to who gets to put on the fat and who doesn’t.
RE: “Seriously, folks, just how many assistants does it take to feed the pigs at the trough? ”
At least two per pig. One to take care of the input and one to rake care of the output. Provided no one drops any laxative in the trough, in which case they multiply the output assistants exponentially.
Keating is on a retainer of $25k per month to put words in our dim-witted treasury frontman’s mouth, now there is one staffer we would do well to lose. Canberra should be given back to the wombats. The whole city, the richest in Australia, was just a Globalist idea from the start. Shut it down.
Oh well no use complaining when you are playing in the corporations sand pit.
You have been warned so many times and haven’t learnt a thing, all of you Party followers…
Perhaps if you had the nouse to return to being members of the legislative assembly and Senators that actually represented the people in the original Parliament that sits vacant instead of the foreign embassy that you now play in, things would go in your favour, however me thinks not much hope of that in the short term.
Anal will have to strip you of more benefits before you realize that the corporation has no empathy for the corporate citizens that have abandoned the public Parliament in favour of the foreign corporate one…
I’ve always supported One Nation and wrote letters of encouragement to Pauline when she was in the slammer, as a result of the efforts of a certain political attack dog, in turn sooled onto her by a more senior person.
But hello! They’re getting one advisor each…they are in minor parties so what are two each going to do all day? drink coffee & chat, send endless emails? Be Very Very Busy?
It’s ALL a rort at public expense; anyone who has had anything to do with the “Public Service” knows how it works….bludgers for the most part (still ‘working’ from home?)
The aim should be to cut the govt advisors down from 499 to, I dunno, say a dozen?
Could things get any worse?
No Pauline. Not “capricious”. “Calculating and politically motivated”.
For crying out this is a trained Marxist from the Search Foundation. He is a Communist asset. The idea here is the demolition of Australia – all sectors. What is not to get about this plan and its implementation.
It started with the sign off on the Lima Declaration in the 1970s when the Labor gov’t decided to dismantle Australian manufacturing and give it away to the developing nations – ostensibly so they could develop their manufacturing base.
Mission accomplished. Now in Australia we are dismantling and energy grid and primary production under the UN 17SDP. The plan for Australian social and economic destruction has moved steadily forward under the tag team of both LNP and Labor.
Well folks,
Can anyone see the Elephant in the room here?
Who needs “staff” when Anal and the Bumbandit Brigade and the entire foreign-owned corporate Uniparty get ALL their corporate policies and strategic instructions ISSUED to them by their Luciferian Masters at the World Economic Forum over there in Davos?
After that, it’s all just a matter of amending a few lines and sending photocopies across all the departments and all the way down the rabbit warren to the fake corporate “local councils”.
Just a couple of competent sectretarial staff can do THAT, although there’s always the incentive to divvy up some more obscenely lucrative “jobs for the boys” all at the expense of the clueless hapless “taxpayers”.
Seriously, folks, just how many assistants does it take to feed the pigs at the trough? They’re all clearly quite capable of gorging themselves without any supervision at all, and supervision is the ONE thing we’ll NEVER see in that Big Club which you ain’t in.
AnAL’s brand spanking new custom $100 Million driveway to his luxury beach house is demonstration enough, and let’s not forget Snuff Scotty with his $52 Million Genocide Bonus stuffed into his undies as he gyrates for his adoring audience doing the kiddy fiddler jig with a smirk and a grin down there at the local Hillsong Paedophile Franchise.
Ironic, isn’t it, when the hardened crims in the penitentiaries are literally Angelic Saints compared to these sold-out paid-off Treasonous anti-Human Luciferian arseholes entrenched throughout all the machinery of our foreign-owned corporate “governance”, because at least the crims know how to properly deal with CHILD MOLESTING PAEDOPHILES. As we all well know, folks, the SATANIC PAEDOPHILES infesting the entire edifice of Australian “governance” from top to bottom are all MADE MEN and they’re all UNTOUCHABLE.
And anyway, just how many staffers do you really NEED to manage institutionally entrenched CHILD TRAFFICKING networks, folks? Enterprising billionaire philanthropists like creepy Bill can give Snuff Scotty and AnAL and the Bumbandit Brigade all the inside tips they need.
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