The coalition targeted public employees since Dutton seems to cut 40,000 jobs

The Treasurer Shadow Angus Taylor on Wednesday reported that the Health Department had cultivated an out -of -measure amount, echoing the previous comments by Dutton who identified the Federal Departments for Health and Education.

“We saw mass billing rates collapse and yet the health departments grew by 40 %. I want to say, this is only crazy stuff and cannot go on,” said Taylor Wednesday.

Two weeks ago, Dutton said that “we are not cutting the positions in the front line” when we are asked where the cuts would come from, before saying: “We have a health department and an education department – the Commonwealth government does not have a school, we do not manage a hospital, we do not employ a doctor or a nurse or a teacher”.

The coalition also stressed that he would not cut the services on the front line when he was asked of the Vetherase Department of Affairs – who grew up under the work a Chiari backlogs of unpaid requests – But the Finance spokesman Jane Hume on Monday wondered if those workers were still necessary.

“If it is a backward and you are erase it, why must they be permanent staff?” Hume asked Sky News. His comments pushed Senator Crossbench Jacqui Lambie to ask furiously Hume to answer if he would have cut the veterans department on Wednesday, but Hume did not face the problem.

Hume also requested Further frames on spending in the National Invalidity Insurance System.

The coalition was vague How it will reduce staff levels. Taylor, when he was asked on Wednesday if he was saying 41,000 people who would have lost their jobs within a few months, said: “Listen, no, the friction will play a very significant role”. Dutton, however, was less clear as he Banks $ 6 billion in annual savings.

A liberal source said that the coalition was taking into consideration the cuts of each department of the government that had grown under labor. They said they did not want to target specific offices to avoid comparisons with the president of the United States Donald Trump, who this month gone through the country’s federal education department.

The work is being seized for the lack of details to accuse the coalition of cuts to the mysteries, but the government is also under control for not having taken into account the remuneration of 11 % of federal bureaucrats in its projections, guiding the coalition to affirm that it is masking the true cost of a bureaucracy in hot air balloon.

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Hume targeted the government’s accounting after Tuesday’s budget. “To them (public employees) an increase in 11 % salary was given and this was not accounted for in this budget. The wages of the public sector (they are a flat line,” he said on Wednesday.

“Somewhere there is a black hole in this budget and we need Katy Gallagher and Jim Chalmers to face and tell us where it is.”

Finance minister Katy Gallagher defended the hiring of extra public employees despite the budget pressure. “The vast majority of these … are already working, they are only working in expensive work hiring agreements as posthums of a hangover from the former government,” he said on Wednesday.

According to the financial statements, 87 % of the increase in the staff of this financial year – and a quarter since 2022 – are former consultants or contractors converted into roles of public employees.

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Gallagher also rejected the arguments of the opposition according to which extra workers did not add any value, stating that the staff levels were insufficient pursuant to the coalition. “If you remember, we had robo debt. We had 42,000 statements relating to veterans’ affairs. The veterans who were not getting their payments because their statements were not assigned,” he said.

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