Pauline Hanson picks on her colleagues in latest policy

Pauline Hanson’s One Nation is pushing for a major government overhaul, proposing to reduce the amount of elected MPs across the board and dock their salaries by $30,000 a year.

The move comes after the party secured enough seats in the Western Australian election to hold sway in parliament. The party’s WA leader Colin Tincknell told The Australian they wanted to reduce the number of MPs by 20 per cent to save taxpayers money.

They plan to begin the push for change in the WA parliament and move onto Hanson’s home state of Queensland for the imminent election later in the year.

Tincknel said he is willing to take a pay cut on his $165,000-a-year package and that voters are sick of an over-bloated government.

The 20 per cent cut in the number of elected MPs would equate to 19 politicians losing their jobs in WA.

“Nothing changes because we’ve got members elected,” he told The Australian. “The general feeling in the community is that there are too many politicians.

“For us right now it’s more about reducing the numbers of politicians, then we will look at salary and entitlements.”

As Queensland inches closer to the next state election, the party has already beginning its campaign for the change.

As it stands most Queensland MPs have around 30,000 voters in any given electorate, while federal MPs have around 90,000. The party is proposing state MPs take care of the same amount of voters as federal MPs.

According to estimations on their site, this would save taxpayers “$1 million per year per member and more with superannuation not having to be paid on retirement”.

What are your thoughts on this? Is this a good idea? Or will it mean voters don’t get enough attention from their local MP?