Senate debates

Tuesday, 14 October 2008

Executive Salaries

3:49 pm

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

I move:

That the Senate calls on the Government to:
(a)
ensure that, as a minimum, no financial institution executives’ pay will increase as a consequence of the Government purchasing residential mortgage-backed securities or guaranteeing deposits and wholesale term funding of Australian financial institutions; and
(b)
prohibit payment of severance benefits (‘golden parachutes’/’golden handshakes’) to chief executive officers of such banks or institutions.

Question put.