passed a bill which, for one year, will reduce the salaries of MPs by 30 per cent “to meet the exigencies arising out of the COVID-19 pandemic.”New Zealand’s celebrated Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced in May that she and her cabinet would absorb a 20 per cent pay cut, saying “if there was ever a time to close the gap between groups of people across New Zealand in different positions, it is now,” adding the decision was taken to show “leadership and solidarity.”Other N.Z.
national government and public sector officials also were slated to experience a salary cut.A month later, Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison, one of the highest-paid national leaders in the world, announced neither he nor his cabinet would absorb a reduction.