The Coalition is setting the stage for an election on major cuts to the federal public service as part of its crusade to wind back Labor’s changes and cut “waste” in a move mirroring the US administration’s war on government “inefficiency”.
Peter Dutton has yet to say where jobs will be cut but the opposition leader doubled down on the commitment at a press conference last week, saying: “I’ve been clear we’re not having 36,000 additional public servants in Canberra.”
