Senate debates

Monday, 20 June 2011

Bills

Corporations Amendment (Improving Accountability on Director and Executive Remuneration) Bill 2011; In Committee

10:37 am

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

I think we have touched a nerve here.

The TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN: Not mine, but you carry on.

No, you have had to defend him. We are not going to hear such a positive mood for my challenge. Let us have a plebiscite, if the opposition want one, on pegging these obscene CEO salaries at $5 million, which is 75 times the average income of workers in this country. If they want to do something about making this country a fairer place in the future, they should try that on. Of course, they will not. They repeatedly come in here to advocate for the already rich—the super-rich, the millionaires and the barons—against the interests of the average worker and the future of the average Australian.

This is a more modest amendment. I have heard the government just reject it. It is the right thing to do. The Greens feel very strongly about this matter and feel very justified in bringing this worthy amendment before the chamber.

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