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Dr LEIGH (Fraser) (21:12): I rise to speak in praise of public sector workers in the ACT and throughout Australia. It was my pleasure recently to attend a roundtable discussion hosted by Slater and...
We often hear about ‘trimming the fat’ in the public service but is there enough thought behind this popular phrase? CPD public service program research director Dr. James Whelan joined panellists Tim Wilson, Andrew...
Why is there a culture of “bashing” the public service in Australia? Frank Cassidy, Director of Public Service News, was on ABC radio yesterday discussing our some of our findings in, The State of...
With CPD’s The State of the Australian Public Service: An Alternative Report revealing a widening gap between the anti-public servant rhetoric and the positive attitudes held by Australian citizens, there are growing inconsistencies within...
It is a lot easier for politicians to talk about slashing the budget than actually finding where to make savings and what to cut. The public service is a favourite victim of the ever...
Australia seems to be confused about how it feels about it’s public service. By and large we are well-disposed to public servants who deliver immediate benefits, like health-care, but are underwhelmed about the performance...
The shadow cabinet met in Canberra yesterday to consider potential areas of public spending to slash. Given the level of rhetoric coming from the opposition about Australia’s ‘bloated’ public service, public sector spending and...
Verona Burgess, in today’s Australian Financial Review reports on CPD’s recent research from our Public Service program that: “…the Coalition’s planned cut of 12,000 jobs in its first year in office is based on...
With the Coalition’s need to find $70 billion in cuts and Tony Abbot’s pledge to axe 12,000 Australian Public Service jobs, CPD’s report The State of the Public Service: An Alternative Report, finds that...
With CPD’s The State of the Australian Public Service: An Alternative Report revealing that it would take an extra 50,000 public servants to reach the number of APS staff per capita that we had...