Minns Government shames Albanese Government on police pay, AFP offer now looks hopeless
Australian Federal Police Association
The NSW police wage deal, which properly recognises and respects the contribution of police officers, stands in jarring contrast to the deal the Albanese Government wants AFP officers to accept, according to the Australian Federal Police Association.
Police officers in NSW will receive a substantial pay rise from the Minns Government of up to 40% over the next four years. The salary for a level-three senior constable will jump from $107,600 to $146,600 by mid-2027, an increase of $39,000.
By contrast, the deal being offered by the Albanese Government to AFP officers is 11.2% over three years, with some adjustments made to allowances and sick leave entitlements. The offer was calibrated for public servants, not operational police officers, forensic scientists and cyber experts.
AFP Association President Alex Caruana said the difference in the deals was stunning.
“When you look at the NSW deal it’s tough to see what the Albanese Government is offering AFP officers as anything short of blatant disrespect,” Mr Caruana said.
“From a moral perspective the Albanese Government’s deal is clearly inadequate. AFP officers put their safety and health on the line dealing with the worst of humanity so the rest of us don’t have to worry about it. Paedophile rings, international drug trafficking, illegal arms dealers, murderous terrorists. AFP officers have to enter these dark worlds at risk to their physical and mental well-being,“
But even if you don’t care about fairness, undervaluing AFP officers creates a huge problem for the national interest. If you don’t care about offering a fair deal to AFP officers, then you don’t care about the threat of terrorism. You don’t care about cybercrime and online child exploitation material. And you don’t care about our role in the Pacific.
“The Albanese Government has dragged AFP officers through months and months of gruelling negotiation before deciding on a low-ball offer. Unless they genuinely believe that AFP officers are nowhere near as important as state police then they need to do better.
“Many AFP officers are fatigued and the Albanese Government is exploiting that fatigue because they know officers are keen to get some kind of deal done. But this New South Wales deal will leave an incredibly bitter taste in their mouths and for those who haven’t voted yet I can’t see many voting yes.”
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Return to home pageWe used to have relatively sensible centralised regular wage determinations at state and federal levels. Perhaps my old classmate, rotten Jack H. featured in destroying what Hawke and Keating started, a destruction of the relationship between cost of living and incomes as in “NOW”. People want some relief now in rising costs and charges by some added compensation, usually income. Now as an e g., I get an annual determination of a small superannuation rise, on Oct. one, but that has “gone,” dented already. So, many resent the news like this, of large wage rises being offered to those in strong positions, while so many others, old, sick, unemployed, students, etc. get nothing at the moment. We never ever seem to “catch up” much. My grandchildren have student debt threats, rent threats, cost threats. Sad…
Corruption?
People can say whatever they want but NOBODY deserves a 40% payrise. 10% per year over 4 years is just obscene, and cops are already on very good money compared to everyone else. the same goes for teachers and their recent massive pay rise, just ridiculoous. Now they have set the precedent they will have to do similar for ALL government workers, nurses, childcare, office workers, ambos, everyone.
Of course then all the non-government workers are going to be even more pissed off because private industry is never, ever in a million years going to any worker that much.
Yeah, well, it’s Sydney, init, and it’s Minns init, NSW inc. init. Obscenity inc. init.
I met Chris Minns, before he was the premier. He didn’t seem like a bad bloke. We shook hands, chatted. Funny how things change once you’re in the hot seat, and under never-ending pressure to do this, do that, agree here, disagree there. Politics is a mug’s game, but strangely attractive to those who choose to jump into the shark-infested pool. And, oh yeah, the lurks are very sweet, if you can last the distance.
Stunning! Truly stunning!
Please stop trying to gaslight me!
I value fairness! Hence my communist perspective on political economy. How many AFP officers have expressed interest in communist ideas?
And I care about terrorism, cybercrime and online child exploitation!
It’s just that I have long since disabuse myself of the facile notion that “command, control, coerce” approaches can provide the solution to delinquent behaviour. Hence my anarchist outlook on political philosophy more generally.
Policing and detection can and will be an integral part of the solution, in that it provides information about the size and nature of the problems we’re dealing with – but as for actually getting anywhere near resolving these matters, that will require more insightful approaches than just extending – and more generously funding – various official protection rackets.