Typical Australian Phenomena.
Impose a salary cap. Allow corruption to create a Salary cap exempt club. Critics look away or weakly come up with Sombrero jokes in the absence of actual honest accounting for the anomaly.
Well their unofficial anthem is about a sheep rustler so no surprises, up jumped a swag man is hardly incriminating since his entire family and the town mayor were transported. Yet they complain about their corrupt officials. Ya cannot find a straight cop in that country on a bent street.