FEDERAL MPS GET A PAY HIKE WHILE AUSSIES ARE EXPECTED TO COP A PENALTY RATE CUT ON THE CHIN

Cutting penalty rates on Sunday to a more commercially sustainable and affordable level for Australian workers in a few specific industries, namely hospitality, was never going to open the door to some kind of Pandora's box of exploitation of any workers. 

The unions and a noisy and loud minority who do their bidding would have everybody believe that. Put simply, it's a politicized witchhunt. However, are the Australian workers in question, the ones who are about to take a pay cut, and not a pay rise, suppose to take kindly to the massive multi-thousand pay rise whichever federal MPs were gifted - on the same day their pay cut was made law?

Come off the grass - they got every right to feel and think that Australian politicians are hypocritical, two faces who have absolutely no ability to relate to the average Australian, and their financial struggles. 

Even if, as Malcolm Turnbull and Bill Shorten would have it, that federal MPs are "forced" to accept the whopping big pay rise they got, why aren't they at least publicly putting it on record that it is profoundly inappropriate? 

It is completely wrong that Australian workers have had their penalty rates cut while pollies get a massive pay rise. Whatever happened to the notion of "everybody sharing the economic burden"? Seems both Turnbull and Shorten have both chosen to forget that.