ACT Minister for Community Services Joy Burch has accused the opposition of revealing a plan to “slash thousands of ACT Public Service jobs by outsourcing  frontline services as a cost-cutting measure” if they win Government.

Burch joined the CPSU today in condemning Liberal MLA Vicki Dunne’s admission that a Canberra Liberal government will outsource Government services at an election forum hosted by the ACT Council of Social Services.

Burch says Dunne told the forum “my vision is that we should actually as a Government be a funder of services rather than necessarily a
provider of services. We also believe that there is in excess of $200 million in the Community Services/Disability Services Budget, not counting Housing. There is a lot of money there, and I don’t know we’re necessarily seeing great value for money.”

“Mrs Dunne has revealed Mr Seselja’s real ‘vision’ for Canberra – thousands of job cuts across the public service, just like his Liberal colleagues around the country have done when they have won government, and just as Tony Abbott is threatening to do to Canberra,” Burch says.

But Opposition Leader Zed Seselja has denied the party will make any cuts to the public service.