Coalition will sharpen PS razor      :(

Date
    September 6, 2013


The Coalition will hit the public service with a bigger efficiency dividend if elected on Saturday, ripping another $428 million from departmental budgets.

The new cuts, on top of the opposition's plan to axe 12,000 public service jobs, were announced on Thursday as part of the Coalition's long-awaited policy costings.

The savings plan also includes caps on public sector consultancies, advertising and travel.    


The cuts are additional to Labor's increased efficiency dividend, which demands most departments and agencies strip 2.25 per cent from their annual budgets

The dividend will rise to 2.5 per cent from the 2013-2014 financial year, if Tony Abbott prevails on Saturday. Shadow Treasurer Joe Hockey also warned on Thursday that the public service would be squarely in the sights of a ''commission of audit'' that will be formed as one of the first acts of an incoming Coalition government.      

The package, which has been subjected to the Parliamentary Budget Office process, also contains a plan to cut $4.5 billion from the foreign aid budget in the four-year forward estimates period and $650 million from the Murray Darling water buyback scheme.

The opposition also announced $11.5 billion of, mostly roads, infrastructure projects, partly offset by dumping nearly $7 billion in Labor building works.

In other news for Canberra, the Coalition says it will save $45 million over four years from the reduction of the former Department of Climate Change and $42 million from scrapping the trial of pre-commitment technology in poker machines.

Mr Hockey announced a package of $9 billion in savings on Thursday, saying it took to $42 billion the amount of savings it is claiming, including ''modest adjustments'' of $2 billion of interest saved on reduced debt.

The savings would trim the bottom line of the $400 billion annual federal budget by $6 billion over four years in response to what the Coalition has consistently claimed is a ''budget crisis''.

The costings were signed off by a three-man panel of former Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet boss Peter Shergold, former Queensland Auditor General Len Scanlan and former Treasury official Geoff Carmody. The Coalition costings document from the Parliamentary Budget Office will not be provided for public scrutiny.

Mr Hockey's announcement was immediately dismissed as a ''farce'' by Deputy Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. He said Labor's increases to the efficiency dividend had been calculated to be ''as much as the service can bear,'' and that Coalition plans for further increases were irresponsible.

Launching his costings in Melbourne, Mr Hockey foreshadowed even more pain for the public service through a commission of audit and singled out Canberra for particular attention.      

''The commission of audit is going to focus on getting rid of the waste and having a more efficient public sector in Canberra,'' he said.

''We have been able to identify projects like $160,000 in examinations of sexuality and Islamic interpretations of reproductive health technology in Egypt.

''I don't see that as a good spend of Australian taxpayers' money. We have to get rid of the waste, have a more efficient public sector.''

According to the Coalition's documents the new efficiency dividend is a ''modest'' saving delivering ''$428 million through prudent limitations on government advertising and consultancies as well as on government travel''.

The public sector union CPSU immediately hit out at the announcement, saying the new efficiency dividend, combined with Labor's increase in July, could cost an extra 6250 public service jobs.

The union's national secretary, Nadine Flood, said big cuts to the public service workforce must inevitably result in reduced levels of frontline services. ''This will knock services around the country for a six,'' Ms Flood said. ''Centrelink queues will get longer, there'll be fewer people inspecting at Quarantine, and fewer people checking the weather at the Bureau of Meteorology. You name it, it'll be hit.''      :o

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The born to be paid by the sucker Australian slaves might have to do some real work. So what......

OF COURSE YOU FORGOT HUNGER AND FAMINE.... THAT WILL START ON THE 8TH.....FOLLOWED BY YOUR FAV TEAM LOSING THE GRAND FINAL..ALL NURSING HOMES CLOSING DOWN FOR LACK OF FUNDING.. HOSPITAL QUEUES GETTING LONGER BY THE HOUR... AND ASYLUM SEEKERS BEING SET UP IN 5 STAR HOTELS....

IT WILL ALL START AS OF THE 8/9.13.....

CANT WAIT. ::)

cods wrote on Sep 6^th, 2013 at 5:26pm:

OF COURSE YOU FORGOT HUNGER AND FAMINE.... THAT WILL START ON THE 8TH.....FOLLOWED BY YOUR FAV TEAM LOSING THE GRAND FINAL..ALL NURSING HOMES CLOSING DOWN FOR LACK OF FUNDING.. HOSPITAL QUEUES GETTING LONGER BY THE HOUR... AND ASYLUM SEEKERS BEING SET UP IN 5 STAR HOTELS.... IT WILL ALL START AS OF THE 8/9.13..... CANT WAIT. ::)

but we will have the carbon tax so all of our problems are solved...

If workers dont organise and join unions they may as well just quit their jobs and go on a lifetime of dole payments.
Tony Abbott will destroy workers rights and then their jobs so its time to organise.

adelcrow wrote on Sep 6^th, 2013 at 5:33pm:

If workers dont organise and join unions they may as well just quit their jobs and go on a lifetime of dole payments. Tony Abbott will destroy workers rights and then their jobs so its time to organise.

So thats why the dole lines will get longer. Because people will not join unions. Weird concept. Its all yours

"I'm crook" should get a LIFE.  The dole should be cut to nothing after 3 months.  Plenty of jobs out there ....  relocate ... take a job less than you THINK you are worth. Build yourself up. Stop whining.

wrote on Sep 6^th, 2013 at 5:23pm:

Centrelink queues will get longer

I hope this means that you won't be able to post as much.

Quantum wrote on Sep 6^th, 2013 at 5:40pm:

wrote on Sep 6th, 2013 at 5:23pm: Centrelink queues will get longer I hope this means that you won't be able to post as much.

hahahahaha...the union stooge.... he will be well taken care of.. ;) ;)

read this

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Bobby. wrote on Sep 6^th, 2013 at 5:43pm:

read this

and?

Its funny because when the Libs cut the fat from QLD public service the dole queue got shorter.

Neferti wrote on Sep 6^th, 2013 at 5:44pm:

Bobby. wrote on Sep 6th, 2013 at 5:43pm: read this and?

Sounds bloody good to me

LAZY people will always blame The Government for their problems.

How can somebody who apparently claims to be "unemployable" afford to be on this Forum 24/7?

Neferti wrote on Sep 6^th, 2013 at 5:44pm:

Bobby. wrote on Sep 6th, 2013 at 5:43pm: read this and?

WHY?.. bobby keeps posting that one I think he is paid by the post..LOL>. hey bobby are you worried you will have to find a job????

I can imagine a few being upset about that.

Neferti wrote on Sep 6^th, 2013 at 5:47pm:

LAZY people will always blame The Government for their problems. How can somebody who apparently claims to be "unemployable" afford to be on this Forum 24/7?

I dont know anyone on here who claims to be on the dole....they are far too proud to claim anything from the govt.. only liberals do that...

cods wrote on Sep 6^th, 2013 at 5:48pm:

Neferti wrote on Sep 6th, 2013 at 5:44pm: Bobby. wrote on Sep 6th, 2013 at 5:43pm: read this and? WHY?.. bobby keeps posting that one I think he is paid by the post..LOL>. hey bobby are you worried you will have to find a job???? I can imagine a few being upset about that.

I receive nothing for my words of wisdom.

Bobby. wrote on Sep 6^th, 2013 at 5:57pm:

cods wrote on Sep 6th, 2013 at 5:48pm: Neferti wrote on Sep 6th, 2013 at 5:44pm: Bobby. wrote on Sep 6th, 2013 at 5:43pm: read this and? WHY?.. bobby keeps posting that one I think he is paid by the post..LOL>. hey bobby are you worried you will have to find a job???? I can imagine a few being upset about that. I receive nothing for my words of wisdom.

And even if you were paid for them you wouldn't receive any more.

Bobby. wrote on Sep 6^th, 2013 at 5:57pm:

cods wrote on Sep 6th, 2013 at 5:48pm: Neferti wrote on Sep 6th, 2013 at 5:44pm: Bobby. wrote on Sep 6th, 2013 at 5:43pm: read this and? WHY?.. bobby keeps posting that one I think he is paid by the post..LOL>. hey bobby are you worried you will have to find a job???? I can imagine a few being upset about that. I receive nothing for my words of wisdom.

of course you dont.... when you start sharing words of WISDOM you will see the money flow in...

but whilst its all crap.. what do you expect,.. ;) ;)

Quote:

Mr Abbott Centrelink Queues Will Get Longer.

With a little help from the workers' friend; the enlightened and progressive ALP.


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Ford lays off 440 Victorian workers from Geelong and Broadmeadows plants

Centrelink queues may very well get longer so now is the time to introduce food stamps so as not to f#ck up Mr Abbotts budget.
Nobody wants irresponsible unemployed people Smacking up Mr Abbotts budget.  >:(

adelcrow wrote on Sep 6^th, 2013 at 5:33pm:

If workers dont organise and join unions they may as well just quit their jobs and go on a lifetime of dole payments. Tony Abbott will destroy workers rights and then their jobs so its time to organise.

On the other hand, he could start a revolution!  :-?

I suspect that some business people have been waiting for Labor to be turfed out before they commit any money to new projects.
That is understandable.
Perhaps some of the mining investment heading to Africa will stay in Australia instead  now.
I suspect there will be a gradual lowering of the unemployment rate.
Certainly more jobs will be created, it will depend on the participation rate to get the final figures.