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APPENDIX 1:
(Incorporated in Hansard on 17 December 1992 at page 4099)
The Public Service under Labor
There are certain functions in our society that must always be in the hands of the Government. It is therefore important for Australia, and a firm goal of the Coalition, that Australia has a highly motivated, professional and well-paid Public Service. As the National Capital and the seat of the Federal Government, Canberra will always have a significant public sector.
The Labor Party has claimed that 4440 public servants will lose their jobs under a Coalition Government. (The Department of Finance estimates 3300).
This scaremongering is unbelievably hypocritical when you consider that, in the last four years, under a Federal Labor Government, there have been ?259 retrenchments in the Public Service- (Dept. of Finance Statistical Bulletin 1991-92 p.102)
The Labor Government has retrenched thousands of public r vents, privatised Government functions and, transferee whole sections of Departments out of the ACT...
Look at the facts:
PUBLIC SERVICE CUTS UNDER LABOR
* Under Labor there have been 7259 retrenchments and redundancies in the public service in the last four years.
* Senator Nick Columbus boasted on the Matthew Abraham show (28.4.92) and again in Parliament (17.9.92) that "The staffing numbers in Department of Administrative Services have been decreased from 18,000 to 13,000". "It is a process that continues and will continue". In Parliament on 14 December 1992 he said "Over recent years DAB has been reduced from a department with some 18,000 staff to one with some 11,200 staff.
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