New pay rises for our pollies
- Write a short summary of the story told by the graph.
- Why does the graph make it appear on first glance that backbenchers
for example earn half of what ministers do?
- Redraw the graph with a scale starting at zero and comment
on the different appearance. Why would someone wish to portray
the information as in the graph in the article?
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