You can choose whether to have Medicare cover only, or a combination of Medicare and private health insurance. Citizens and most permanent Australian residents are eligible for Medicare.
Shadow Salaries. Shadow salary arrangements are created to protect salary paid from General Purpose Operating Funds (GPOF) for a full-time faculty member in the tenure stream and will normally arise in the following circumstances:1  when an outside funding agency agrees to cover a part of a faculty memberâs GPOF salary,his procedure allows for the tracking of GPOF slots for these faculty members to ensure that the funding is available on his or her full-time return to GPOF or to the home department (for administrative positions). Shadow salaries should be set up in advance of the salary distribution.
Additional salary for a Shadow Minister is calculated in accordance with the rates in the table below, determined by the Remuneration Tribunal and effective on and from 1 July 2014. The additional salary is calculated by applying the stipulated percentage to the base salary, rounding up to the nearest ten dollars.The annual benefits are paid in proportion (pro rata) to the relevant Shadow Ministerâs period of service during that year.he additional salary is calculated by applying the stipulated percentage to the base salary, rounding up to the nearest ten dollars. The annual benefits are paid in proportion (pro rata) to the relevant Shadow Ministerâs period of service during that year.