Is that how many reasons she has to not resign ? 400,000?
"AUSTRALIA’S embattled human rights watchdog presides over a mini empire with dozens of fat cats earning $100,000-plus salaries.
The Australian Human Rights Commission employs more than 120 people, with president Professor Gillian Triggs at the top of the tree on a $408,000 annual package, says the organisation’s latest annual report.
Prof Triggs is at war with the Abbott Government over asylum seeker issues, including her launch of a controversial inquiry into children in detention in early 2014 when the numbers locked up had fallen under the Coalition.
Last week, she earned a rebuke from Immigration Minister Peter Dutton for linking boat turn backs to Indonesia’s stubbornness in retaining the death penalty.
In the commission’s 2013-14 annual report, whose release was delayed for months due to an accounting error, Prof Triggs was strident on the asylum seeker issue.
“While we have seen a vibrant public dialogue around freedoms in Australia, the rights and liberties of those asylum seekers held in detention centres ... have curiously been omitted from the debate,” she said.
Prof Triggs came under fire last year when she defended the commission’s lavish awards night cocktail party on the Sydney waterfront, saying it shouldn’t have to do things “in some sort of shabby way” and hold events in a place like Koo Wee Rup.
The report revealed that Prof Triggs’ six fellow commissioners earned about $331,000 each, while three other executives had $200,000-plus packages.
A further 18 senior staff earned up to $130,787, with the commission paying out a total of almost $16 million in wages and other benefits last year.
Last month, the Herald Sun revealed that human rights commissioner Tim Wilson ran up a travel bill of $14,000 on an Asian trip to fight for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender awareness."
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/hu...e/news-story/32ebdf1b09acd50334a243550d657285
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