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Public service cuts worse than expected

 

PUBLIC service job cuts are set to be far greater than had been originally forecast, according to Senator Gary Humphries.

 

Despite claims that there would be no forced redundancies, Department of Climate Change Secretary Blair Comley announced job cuts were imminent in a meeting with staff yesterday.

 

“Department bosses have been coming under increased pressure to shed jobs since Labor increased the efficiency dividend to its highest ever level and delivered a budget that now tries to claw back money the Government have been out spending,” says Humphries.

 

“Kate Lundy, Andrew Leigh and Gai Brodtmann have continually misled the ACT and the APS by stating there would be no job losses, despite all evidence to the contrary.

 

“This morning on Canberra radio, Andrew Leigh was forced to concede that the Labor mantra of no APS job losses was set to join the festering pile of broken Labor promises and admitted that he had recently met with Deputy Chief Minister Andrew Barr to find out how the ACT government could absorb the losses from the federal public service.”

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