{"id":740023,"date":"2026-06-16T11:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T11:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/740023\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T11:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T11:22:08","slug":"australias-top-public-servants-face-salary-freezes-and-perks-getting-slashed-from-first-review-in-15-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/740023\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia\u2019s top public servants face salary freezes and perks getting slashed from first review in 15 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perks for top bureaucrats, including business-class flights, generous relocation fees and airport lounge access, may be curbed and wages frozen under the biggest remuneration review in 15 years of the highest rungs of Australia\u2019s public service.<\/p>\n<p>The independent Remuneration Tribunal last week completed the first public consultation phase of a 14-month review of whether salary packages of between $800,000 and $1 million for the nation\u2019s most senior public officials \u201cremain fit-for-purpose and continue to support capability, integrity and public confidence\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Perks for top bureaucrats, including business-class flights, generous relocation fees and airport lounge access, may be curbed and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":740024,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-740023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=740023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/740024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}