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Public servants face axe in $500m budget cuts
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MORE than 1500 federal public servants are set to lose their job, as the Gillard government prepares to release a tough budget in May that could trigger even greater job losses in the bureaucracy.
Most of the initial 1500 jobs expected to be shed will be based in Canberra, and are a result of a government attempt to save about $500 million on public servants. But even more jobs could now be cut as a result of next month's budget, in which the government will pare back its expenditure to try to deliver a surplus. Public sector unions yesterday warned that cuts that went too deep would ultimately hurt the economy.
Prime Minister Julia Gillard acknowledged yesterday that the bureaucracy was bearing the brunt of her government's decisions. ''I am a big supporter of the public service but, as a government, we have had to make tough decisions to generate a budget surplus for 2012-13.''
Advertisement: Story continues below Her comments came as the Regional Affairs Department said it would reduce its 650-strong workforce by 66 people. The job losses, the secretary of the department told staff at a meeting yesterday, would occur by not renewing contract positions and consultancies, cutting some management roles, and offering a limited number of voluntary redundancies.
Those job losses follow the Department of Climate Change earlier this week revealing it would slash its workforce by up to 300 staff. The two workplaces join a growing list of agencies that have announced plans to let staff go, including the departments of education (500 jobs) and treasury (150). .
Community and Public Sector Union national secretary Nadine Flood said the spending cuts would inevitably lead to thousands of job losses.
''The government needs to ask whether it really is essential to return the budget to surplus now, and whether they risk damaging the economy by making cuts that are too deep.''
Ms Flood said the cuts at the Climate Change Department would stymie its ability to get any work done. ''A cut of this magnitude must damage the department's capacity to lead our efforts on climate change,'' she said.
However, the opposition's shadow secretary for the environment, Senator Simon Birmingham, told the ABC yesterday that the job losses were a consequence of the government's ineptitude. ''Clearly the public service is bloated and [that] is part of the enormous waste this government has undertaken,'' Senator Birmingham said.
Greens deputy leader Christine Milne criticised the Climate Change Department job losses, saying the government should cut wasteful subsidies to mining companies, rather than sack ''people whose job it is to help protect the climate''
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