[BITList] Australia Post - PMG (Poor Mugs Gravy)

[FA]

>                 Recently Australia Post which is totally government
>                 owned and has been for 200 years, announced the loss
>                 of 900 jobs, being part of a cut back program.
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>                 This is due to the decline in letters beings sent and
>                 that’s true as email has further reduced letter
>                 writing and in many ways understandably.
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>                 A hand written letter is a wonderful thing and
>                 contains the hand writing of a friend or loved one and
>                 that’s a blessing plus the effort required to put pen
>                 to paper and then to post it.
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>                 The CEO of Australia Post is Ahmed Fahour who was born
>                 in Lebanon and came to Australia in 1970.
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>                 In 2009 he was made Managing Director and CEO of
>                 Australia Post.
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>                 His salary package was estimated to be worth $4.8
>                 million last year. Of this he donated about $2 million
>                 to the Islamic Museum of Australia located in Melbourne.
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>                 I have a big problem with this fellow’s salary package
>                 and so let’s get some perspective here The top ten
>                 executives in Australia Post combined earn around $20
>                 million each year. That’s simply immoral and clearly
>                 the CEO can afford to give away nearly half his
>                 takings to an Islamic museum so he doesn’t need it and
>                 surprise, surprise, its tax deductable.
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>                 The founder and director of the museum is former
>                 Macquarie Bank executive Moustafa Fahour - Ahmed
>                 Fahour’s brother.
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>                 Moustafa’s wife, Maysaa, is the chairwoman and
>                 director. The Fahours’ sister, Samira El Khafir, is
>                 head chef and manages the restaurant on site.
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>                 How can the CEO of the Post Office earn so much
>                 especially when the postal service is bleeding money
>                 from letter delivery. No employee is worth 5 million a
>                 year and especially not from a government owned business.
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>                 The top federal public servants in Australia have
>                 salaries of between $665,600 and $844,800 so how does
>                 the bloke in charge of the Post Office received $4.8
>                 million? The Prime Minister of Australia earns a
>                 modest $507,000 considering the real burdens of office
>                 while the CEO of the Gold Coast Council earning
>                 slightly less and that’s patently out of kilter with
>                 the PM’s package. The Mayor of GCCC brings in $225,000
>                 so how on earth can the Post Office justify the
>                 massive pay of their CEO?.
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>                 Let’s look further; the head of the US postal service
>                 with 19 times more staff and 11 times more revenue
>                 than Australia Post receives $550,000.
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>                 In France the head of their post office was paid $1.1
>                 million with a staff compliment of 268,000 employees.
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>                 What a country full of mugs we are to sit by and let
>                 all this happen. I would have run the big game of Post
>                 Office for a lot less and still done a reasonable job
>                 and in fact if the best of we seniors applied
>                 ourselves we could run the damn post office better and
>                 for nothing except a kiss and a free lunch now and again.
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>                 You had better believe it too.
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>                 There is an unpleasant and some would say sinister
>                 unbalanced agenda in Australia which in the end preys
>                 on the average citizen, we the people. We are no
>                 longer the lucky country and we are no longer wealthy
>                 and, this particular game of Post Office reveals major
>                 fractures and faults on a number fronts in our society
>                 and culture.
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>                 Who is running the country, who is pulling the levers
>                 and who is going to win? We the Mugs need to know.
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>                 *_Please pass this on to all of your contacts _*
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