Flat White

Call that a public service cut?

8 December 2019

4:33 PM

8 December 2019

4:33 PM

So we have the long-anticipated reform of the federal public service in Australia. Sort of. There are fewer departments, but they are bigger. They will most likely still employ the same total number of bureaucrats.

What will be new is six to 12 months of administrative chaos in the merged departments as people and facilities move around and try to gel together their different ethoses and IT systems.

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