The incoming Governor-General Sam Mostyn is set to receive a pay rise of around $215,000, equating to 43 per cent more than her predecessor David Hurley.

Nine’s Federal Politics Report, Zac De Silva, posed the question to Oly Peterson on Perth Live – does it pass the pub test?

The Government have argued that while Mostyn is from the private sector, many governors-general have come from areas such as the military or judiciary, from which they drew comfortable pensions, and in which case their salary was adjusted down.

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