Prime Minister Scott Morrison will order “well paid” public servant bosses to make $2.7 billion in cuts to help the government claw back its trillion-dollar debt, but insists money won’t be slashed from essential services.
At a press conference near Darwin in the marginal seat of Lingiari on Tuesday, Mr Morrison said a re-elected Coalition government would seek to cut $2.7 billion from a departmental expenditure budget of $327.3 billion over four years.
