The figures presented in the Canberra Times today are not correct. The Government believes it is important the public service continues to play its part in delivering savings to the Budget given tight fiscal conditions. The Government expects agencies to continue to meet the efficiency dividend without resorting to forced redundancies. We know the Liberal [...]
public service
Humphries back flips and betrays public service
Liberal Senator for the ACT, Gary Humphries, has admitted a Coalition government would wield the axe through the public service, slash public sector jobs and shut down government departments. Today on ABC local radio, Senator Humphries confessed: “We’ve made clear we intend to do with somewhat fewer public servants than we have at the moment, [...]
Coalition hit list targets the Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency
The Shadow Treasurer Joe Hockey admitted last night on ABC’s Lateline that the Department of Climate Change will be on the chopping block if the Coalition form government. The Department of Climate Change is the third department to be publicly targeted by Mr Hockey. In July on the ABC’s QandA program, Mr Hockey admitted the [...]
Duplicity of ACT Liberals exposed
ACT Liberal Senator Gary Humphries’ credibility is smashed in his response to Federal Labor’s budget. He has one position for the Canberra media and community, and a different one for his Liberal party colleagues. In Canberra, he criticises Federal Labor’s responsible fiscal constraint limiting the growth of the public sector, incorrectly claiming it will lead [...]
Liberals can’t be trusted on public service jobs
Tony Abbott today announced an additional $1.183 billion worth of cuts, which will put local public service jobs at risk and again demonstrates the ideological commitment the Liberal party has to “cutting government jobs” in the same way the former Howard Government did in the first years of that government in 1996 and 1997. The [...]
Liberals Plan for Canberra
This is what the Liberals have in store for Canberra: Cut 5,000 public services jobs in health and education (1 April 2010) Cut spending by $10 billion (27 April 2010) Cut the National Broadband Network (27 April 2010) Cut the Building Education Revolution (10 April 2010) “It is clear the Coalition has a list of [...]
Public Service recommendations a positive step forward
Senator for the ACT, Kate Lundy has welcomed the release of Ahead of the Game: Blueprint for the reform of the Australian Government Administration. “I welcome the nine broad recommendations the Advisory Group have put forward of a more citizen centric public service, increased open government, the enhancement of policy capability, the reinvigoration of strategic [...]
Senator Humphries does ETS backflip and squirms on Liberal plan to cut public sector
Senator Humphries has today defined a new extreme in political contortions as he performed a complete backflip on his previous hand-over-heart commitment to wanting an ETS for the sake of the environment. In addition, he had nowhere to hide when challenged about Shadow Finance Minister Senator Barnaby Joyce’s plans to pay for the Coalition’s climate [...]
Radio interview: Participatory democracy, Web 2.0 and the Government 2.0 Taskforce
Dr Nicholas Gruen is head of the Australian government’s Government 2.0 Taskforce, which is in the final stages of a public consultation process. Dr Gruen is due to report his recommendations and findings by December 31. So what are his priorities and how does he answer the sceptics — not about his taskforce, but about [...]
Humphries’ scare campaign on the Public Service another desperate exercise
Senator Lundy said today that Senator Gary Humphries’ scare campaign on the Public Service is desperate, irresponsible and misleading. The facts are that in Lindsay Tanner’s address to the National Press Club on Wednesday 8 August 2007, he said: the public sector and government spending has been growing faster than the economy; the growth is [...]
