Finance, women’s and public services minister says Coalition’s promised cuts means ‘failures of systems’
‘A thirst for savings … actually caused, in some instances, the death of innocent Australians,’ finance minister Katy Gallagher said on Thursday.‘A thirst for savings … actually caused, in some instances, the death of innocent Australians,’ finance minister Katy Gallagher said on Thursday.
“A strong, independent and capable APS is worth fighting for and I’m not going to sit by and allow a lazy, arrogant and reckless anti-APS campaign to be waged without a strong rebuttal.” “I mean, it is the most extraordinary public administration failure, … I think the APS is less likely to go as far back as that. But if you cut 20% of the APS’s resourcing, there will be failures of systems. I have no doubt about it.”
“The Nationals have made it clear that we will get rid of those in Canberra. There will be 36,000 public servants that will go. We don’t need more public servants,” he told 6PR radio.
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