Services Australia digital experience 'likely to get worse' with contractor cuts: Fletcher

Services Australia says it is offering to connect cut ICT contractors with other APS agencies that need workers. Picture by Keegan Carroll

Labor was taking Services Australia back to a worse pre-digital era, the opposition has claimed, after a suite of technology job losses at the agency last week.

The agency confirmed to The Canberra Times that up to a thousand jobs, filled by contractors, would end in the weeks leading up to Christmas, as major ICT projects and pandemic surge support wrapped up.