What a silly post Badger.

Look guys this is getting a bit silly.  Alan Bickers will be receiving very little as the Chair of the PGDB - it certainly wouldn't pay his way to North America.  If the guy has saved and is having a holiday I don't think that is any of our business.  PGDB members get $400 a day for meetings I think.  The chair will get more, but when you break it down to  a per hour (given there will be a lot of preparation time, reading etc) - it's hardly lotto winnings. 

What the guy gets paid is irrelevant, if it wasn't him getting it someone else would be - the costs are built in to running the PGDB, and have been for years - it's not new that the Board or the Chair get paid.  I don't see the relevance of this to the injustice that Badger feels he has suffered.  We obviously aren't all going to agree with each other - that's the point of the forum isn't it - for people to air their opinions.  Not a fan of abuse though not matter which way it is flowing.

TS what a silly reply to a silly post! 



I would be highly intrested to know how much they get paid per year to sit on the board because i have no idea?.

I would also love to know round about how much money we are talking about here when all they are doing is driving multiple industries to their knees, then wiping their hands clean of those industries and going onto the next job blame free when all is in tatters and they have successfully only made things worse.

My understanding is they $400 a day for the actual Board meetings - of which there are around 9 a year.  Travel and accommodation is obviously paid too.  I don't know what the Chair gets, but it will be more as the workload is more. There are many papers to be read prior to Board meetings but no prior work is paid for - simply the meeting day.  The annual report has been presented to Parliament on Friday, so will be available next week hopefully, all this will be disclosed in there.  It is common place to pay Board member's and I would not imagine the renumerations has gone up a lot in recent years.  The annual report should show Board running costs which are different to their payments.

Awesome cant wait to dissect those operating reports!!        Should be a good read

I remember reading that robbo. 250k a year for good ol Phil and he did sweet f**k all it turned out in the end....Oh except for witch hunt a few guys he clashed with over the years and abuse the shit out of other pgdb staff sexually and racially.

Yet he winged like a little bi*ch when he eventually lost his employment court case over unfair dismissal. haha love it.
He definitely EARNED that, unlike his salary.