Interpreter Pay in Australia (the Fair, apparently)

One of my colleagues in Brisbane, a Spanish to English translator, quoted the following as a comment on the fact that interpreters seem to be paid $20.00 per hour:


Kim Chap 12 (Hurree Babu)

"Of course I shall affeeliate myself to their camp in supernumerary capacity as perhaps interpreter, or person mentally impotent and hungree, or some such thing."

Hurray to Hurree!