Public sector cuts worth $3.3bn would not result in job losses, David Littleproud claims

Deputy leader of the Nationals David Littleproud said arguments that cuts to the public sector would result in job losses were ‘scaremongering’. Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAP

Nationals frontbencher David Littleproud has claimed that spending cuts imposed across the public sector to deliver $3.3bn in savings to pay for the Morrison government’s election commitments will not result in job losses.

Littleproud at first told the ABC erroneously on Wednesday morning that “governments don’t employ people, businesses do”.