Nice little earner: Fluent Mandarin speakers will find an extra $13,000 in their pay packets. Photo:...

1. Parlez-vous ten grand? DFAT staffers cash-in by speaking
the lingo
Nice little earner: Fluent Mandarin speakers will find an extra $13,000 in their pay packets. Photo:
Reuters
They're the figures that will have thousands of public servants brushing off the high school French
and filing requests for a transfer to Foreign Affairs.