The average full-time Australian worker earns about $72,000 a year and today's wage increase boosts the typical federal backbencher's base salary to $195,130.n Singapore, the Prime Minister earns more than $1.5 million a year. I would never pay them that much, said Associate Professor Christopher Kam from the University of British Columbia in Canada. Professor Kam believes the quality of politicians relates to how their wages compare with the rest of society.
Hyperion (tree) This article is about Hyperion, the tallest living tree. For other uses, see Hyperion (disambiguation). Hyperion is the name of a coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) in Northern California that was measured at 115.61 m (379.3 ft), which ranks it as the world's tallest known living tree. After 2013, new tall coast redwoods were found, research reports omit tree names, and previously known tallest redwoods grew, fell, or lost height.
The tallest known living tree, named Hyperion, is 115.55 m or 379.1 ft (measured in 2006) tall! This gets close to 120 to 130 m, that, according to a 2004 biological study, is the maximum attainable height [1] of a tree.