ABC should be open about staff salaries

By The Canberra Times
Updated October 14 2017 - 6:38pm, first published 6:34pm

Secrecy around salaries is a somewhat unusual concept in Canberra, where so many people work, or have worked, in government. Public servants become quickly used to the idea that the level at which they are employed, and the salaries they receive (or at least close estimates of those salaries), are public information. Every appointment and promotion is published in the Public Service Gazette. Every job's salary range is also published, either in the gazette or elsewhere.

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