{"id":943484,"date":"2026-10-28T03:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T03:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/943484\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T03:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T03:34:09","slug":"wells-demands-restraint-as-australia-post-pays-big-executive-bonuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/943484\/","title":{"rendered":"Wells demands \u2018restraint\u2019 as Australia Post pays big executive bonuses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Communications Minister Anika Wells says Australia Post needs to show restraint in awarding bonuses to its executives after the government-owned postal business gave almost $5 million to 10 of its most senior figures despite a substantial loss in the last financial year.<\/p>\n<p>Australia Post chief executive Paul Graham, who announced his departure earlier this week, was given a bonus of more than $1.36 million, taking his total pay to $3.13 million. That compared to $3.3 million last year.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Communications Minister Anika Wells says Australia Post needs to show restraint in awarding bonuses to its executives after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":943485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-943484","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\/943484","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=943484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/943485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=943484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=943484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=943484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}