CPD reaches coastal areas most at risk.

‘Public sector cuts are killing the country’

Death by a thousand cuts examines how blind, across-the-board cuts can have detrimental effects on productivity. Authors Christopher Stone, CPD research director, and Kathy MacDermott, industrial relations policy expert, have found that regional areas are the hardest hit by public sector cuts in the new report which looks at cases in Western Australia and on a federal level.

“Reflecting on recent cuts in Western Australia and the federal public sector, the CPD recommends that governments stop “avoiding responsibility” for service shortfalls when making budget savings by announcing across the board cuts rather than looking at specific services which could be reduced.”

Read the article at the Sunshine Coast Daily and find out more from Death by a thousand cuts.

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