It's not like these people just pop in to be the prime minister of Australia for a brief four years then go back to pulling coffee shots at their low paying hos

It's not like these people just pop in to be the prime minister of Australia for a brief four years then go back to pulling coffee shots at their low paying hospitallity jobs. The overwhelming majority of Australian politicians are career bureaucrats of one form or another. It'll take me five years of 60 hour weeks in a noise dirty dangerous environment to earn what the PM makes in a year.