High wages for the senior PS are a way to politicise them. The threat of losing contracts, bonuses etc is always hung over them. Paul Keating bought in 5 year contracts & John Howard was the first to start using these threats in earnest, completely bending the PS to his way or the highway.

Not Florida, but it might as well be for where their education system is heading.

For me, it was this;

Nothing shonky going on at all.