Anna Bligh’s pay rises to $6bn

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Turns out that running a fake government can be quite expensive. From Chanticleer:

After almost a year of shadow boxing between politicians and bankers, Treasurer Scott Morrison’s budget reveals the depth of rancour in the upper ranks of the Turnbull government toward the country’s major banks and those who run them.

A bank levy that will raise $6.2 billion over the next four years is the centrepiece of a coordinated strike against the big four and Macquarie. The Treasurer’s other significant moves include a new law that would impose $200 million fines for a single banker hiding misconduct from regulators and giving the prudential regulator the power to set the long-term remuneration of senior bankers.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.