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Gallagher says size of public sector workforce has not ‘grown out of pace’ with work
Katy Gallagher is continuing her media rounds, speaking to ABC RN Breakfast.
I think the public service is roughly the right size. Now, there’s always ons and offs and programs that stop and all that sort of stuff, but the public service as a proportion of population is smaller now than it was in 2006, so there is absolutely no evidence to say that it’s, you know, grown out of pace with the work that it needs to do.
What we’re trying to do is support households as we rebuild, essentially, the energy electricity grid to make sure it can get more renewables in, because we know that’s the cheapest form of energy. So we are trying to balance, you know, those costs households are getting with the work that needs to be done and the investments that need to be done.
We’re now seeing red ink as far as the eye can see. There are deficits now that are baked in to budgets for the next decade.
A Coalition government, a Dutton-led Coalition government will restore those fiscal guardrails to try to get us back to a structural surplus over the medium term. It’s going to take an awful lot of discipline to get us back to where Australians need to be.
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