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17 June 2008

AVERAGE wage earners and pensioners will hardly feel their hearts break for Swansea MP Robert Coombes, who told this newspaper that NSW parliamentarians were finding it "nearly impossible to feed and house" themselves with the allowance of more than $200 a day they receive for the time they spend in Sydney. As a backbencher the former union boss earns a salary of about $126,000 plus allowances, and it was in defence of hefty increases to the allowances that Mr Coombes made his remarks... read full story