Professor B. Beaumont Whitford
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 15 Jul
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But it's not like a salary.
You're taking a risk.
A salary you're going to get.
Actually, speaking of salaries, did you know one of your university, the University of South Australia Chancellor, this is someone who gets paid a fortune without a risk, made $3.1 million in 2025.
Get out of here.
Yeah.
3.1 million, and that was to merge the universities.
And that's the University of Australia, 3.1 million.
Now, he's not taking a risk, so tax him 47, because half of it was probably government money anyway.
But if you look at my staff, if I had given them shares back in those days, they would have been paying 47% tax on them in their hands.
And now those shares could have gone to zero, but they still would have had to pay their tax.
So I don't think it's the same thing.
Like, I'm all for, you know...
Tradies getting taxed the same way as entrepreneurs if they're taking the same risks as entrepreneurs.
But I went to bed a fair few nights with a can of soup in my belly so that I could keep funding this baby and growing it up.
I couldn't work for anyone else.
So even when I was in the Air Force, I had a bit of attitude.
You did?
I used to run around the parade ground with my rifle above my head for my smart mouth.
Yeah, we've all been there.
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