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Reply #510 - Mar 12^th, 2025 at 8:43pm

https://wentworthreport.com/2025/03/11/australian-federal-bureaucracy-grew-by-44...

Australian federal bureaucracy grew by 44 per cent in Albanese‘s first two years as PM.

By Nick Cater in The Australian.

The Covid pandemic was the pretext for an unprecedented expansion of government during peacetime.

The ranks of state and federal public servants increased by 23 per cent between June 2019 and June 2024. The wage bill increased by 39 per cent. …

Between June 2022 and June 2024, the Australian Public Service workforce grew by 44 per cent. Sadly, that’s not a typo. Albanese inherited a workforce of 254,000 that had grown to 365,00 by last June according to Australian Bureau of Statistics data.

The wage bill rose by 52 per cent from $24.5bn to $37.3bn. …

Dutton is on safe ground in targeting 36,000 public service jobs in Canberra. …

Party of the bureaucracy:

Labor’s problem is that it has become as indebted to the public service as it is to the unions. It relies on the votes of those on the government’s payroll to make up for the falling number of Labor supporters who aren’t.

Finance Minister Katy Gallagher had no choice but to stand up for the right of public servants to work from home last week after the Coalition had pledged to drive the bureaucrats back to the office.

Gallagher’s comments may shore up her vote as an ACT senator but they are poison to those in jobs where things are done rather than merely administered. Those who work from home are primarily managers and professionals, not the people who fill and empty warehouses, dig holes, pour concrete or supervise checkout counters.

It is their votes Labor is about to lose at the next election.

44% growth in two years of a Labor government!?! Why haven’t the legacy media told us before? Why isn’t this a major election issue?

Australia needs a DOGE to trim it back. How on earth did we manage before 2022? Has anyone notice any difference — other than to the budget and taxes — from hiring all those bureaucrats?

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Re: Albo government scorecard
Reply #511 - Mar 12^th, 2025 at 9:20pm

Bobby. wrote on Mar 12^th, 2025 at 8:43pm:

https://wentworthreport.com/2025/03/11/australian-federal-bureaucracy-grew-by-44...

Australian federal bureaucracy grew by 44 per cent in Albanese‘s first two years as PM.

By Nick Cater in The Australian.

The Covid pandemic was the pretext for an unprecedented expansion of government during peacetime.

The ranks of state and federal public servants increased by 23 per cent between June 2019 and June 2024. The wage bill increased by 39 per cent. …

Between June 2022 and June 2024, the Australian Public Service workforce grew by 44 per cent. Sadly, that’s not a typo. Albanese inherited a workforce of 254,000 that had grown to 365,00 by last June according to Australian Bureau of Statistics data.

The wage bill rose by 52 per cent from $24.5bn to $37.3bn. …

Dutton is on safe ground in targeting 36,000 public service jobs in Canberra. …

Party of the bureaucracy:

Labor’s problem is that it has become as indebted to the public service as it is to the unions. It relies on the votes of those on the government’s payroll to make up for the falling number of Labor supporters who aren’t.

Finance Minister Katy Gallagher had no choice but to stand up for the right of public servants to work from home last week after the Coalition had pledged to drive the bureaucrats back to the office.

Gallagher’s comments may shore up her vote as an ACT senator but they are poison to those in jobs where things are done rather than merely administered. Those who work from home are primarily managers and professionals, not the people who fill and empty warehouses, dig holes, pour concrete or supervise checkout counters.

It is their votes Labor is about to lose at the next election.

44% growth in two years of a Labor government!?! Why haven’t the legacy media told us before? Why isn’t this a major election issue?

Australia needs a DOGE to trim it back. How on earth did we manage before 2022? Has anyone notice any difference — other than to the budget and taxes — from hiring all those bureaucrats?

So, he's creating thousands of jobs.

Well done, Mr. Prime Minister.

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Re: Albo government scorecard
Reply #512 - Mar 12^th, 2025 at 9:59pm

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Albanese inherited a workforce of 254,000 that had grown to 365,000 by last June
according to Australian Bureau of Statistics data

I checked here – the figures are correct:

https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/labour/employment-and-unemployment/public-sect...

June 2022
254,000 employees in Commonwealth government;

https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/labour/employment-and-unemployment/public-sect...

June 2024

365,400 employees in Commonwealth government (including defence force personnel);

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Re: Albo government scorecard
Reply #513 - Mar 12^th, 2025 at 10:54pm

Bobby. wrote on Mar 12^th, 2025 at 9:59pm:

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Albanese inherited a workforce of 254,000 that had grown to 365,000 by last June
according to Australian Bureau of Statistics data

I checked here – the figures are correct:

https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/labour/employment-and-unemployment/public-sect...

June 2022
254,000 employees in Commonwealth government;

https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/labour/employment-and-unemployment/public-sect...

June 2024

365,400 employees in Commonwealth government (including defence force personnel);

The figure above may be misleading.
The 2022 figure doesn't mention Dept. of Defence employees - soldiers.

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Re: Albo government scorecard
Reply #514 - Mar 12^th, 2025 at 11:01pm

greggerypeccary wrote on Mar 12^th, 2025 at 9:20pm:

Bobby. wrote on Mar 12^th, 2025 at 8:43pm:

https://wentworthreport.com/2025/03/11/australian-federal-bureaucracy-grew-by-44...

Australian federal bureaucracy grew by 44 per cent in Albanese‘s first two years as PM.

By Nick Cater in The Australian.

The Covid pandemic was the pretext for an unprecedented expansion of government during peacetime.

The ranks of state and federal public servants increased by 23 per cent between June 2019 and June 2024. The wage bill increased by 39 per cent. …

Between June 2022 and June 2024, the Australian Public Service workforce grew by 44 per cent. Sadly, that’s not a typo. Albanese inherited a workforce of 254,000 that had grown to 365,00 by last June according to Australian Bureau of Statistics data.

The wage bill rose by 52 per cent from $24.5bn to $37.3bn. …

Dutton is on safe ground in targeting 36,000 public service jobs in Canberra. …

Party of the bureaucracy:

Labor’s problem is that it has become as indebted to the public service as it is to the unions. It relies on the votes of those on the government’s payroll to make up for the falling number of Labor supporters who aren’t.

Finance Minister Katy Gallagher had no choice but to stand up for the right of public servants to work from home last week after the Coalition had pledged to drive the bureaucrats back to the office.

Gallagher’s comments may shore up her vote as an ACT senator but they are poison to those in jobs where things are done rather than merely administered. Those who work from home are primarily managers and professionals, not the people who fill and empty warehouses, dig holes, pour concrete or supervise checkout counters.

It is their votes Labor is about to lose at the next election.

44% growth in two years of a Labor government!?! Why haven’t the legacy media told us before? Why isn’t this a major election issue?

Australia needs a DOGE to trim it back. How on earth did we manage before 2022? Has anyone notice any difference — other than to the budget and taxes — from hiring all those bureaucrats?

So, he's creating thousands of jobs.

Well done, Mr. Prime Minister.

That's the answer! We'll all go on the public payroll! That's what dividie reckons is right - we all rely totally on our government for our daily bread and we go to work like good little drones... Big Guv'nah knows best!!

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Re: Albo government scorecard
Reply #515 - Mar 13^th, 2025 at 7:12am

greggerypeccary wrote on Mar 12^th, 2025 at 9:20pm:

Bobby. wrote on Mar 12^th, 2025 at 8:43pm:

https://wentworthreport.com/2025/03/11/australian-federal-bureaucracy-grew-by-44...

Australian federal bureaucracy grew by 44 per cent in Albanese‘s first two years as PM.

By Nick Cater in The Australian.

The Covid pandemic was the pretext for an unprecedented expansion of government during peacetime.

The ranks of state and federal public servants increased by 23 per cent between June 2019 and June 2024. The wage bill increased by 39 per cent. …

Between June 2022 and June 2024, the Australian Public Service workforce grew by 44 per cent. Sadly, that’s not a typo. Albanese inherited a workforce of 254,000 that had grown to 365,00 by last June according to Australian Bureau of Statistics data.

The wage bill rose by 52 per cent from $24.5bn to $37.3bn. …

Dutton is on safe ground in targeting 36,000 public service jobs in Canberra. …

Party of the bureaucracy:

Labor’s problem is that it has become as indebted to the public service as it is to the unions. It relies on the votes of those on the government’s payroll to make up for the falling number of Labor supporters who aren’t.

Finance Minister Katy Gallagher had no choice but to stand up for the right of public servants to work from home last week after the Coalition had pledged to drive the bureaucrats back to the office.

Gallagher’s comments may shore up her vote as an ACT senator but they are poison to those in jobs where things are done rather than merely administered. Those who work from home are primarily managers and professionals, not the people who fill and empty warehouses, dig holes, pour concrete or supervise checkout counters.

It is their votes Labor is about to lose at the next election.

44% growth in two years of a Labor government!?! Why haven’t the legacy media told us before? Why isn’t this a major election issue?

Australia needs a DOGE to trim it back. How on earth did we manage before 2022? Has anyone notice any difference — other than to the budget and taxes — from hiring all those bureaucrats?

So, he's creating thousands of jobs.

Well done, Mr. Prime Minister.

That's like saying "printing money is creating wealth".

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Question: Preferred Party/Natkonal Leader
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Albanese 0 (0.0%) Dutton 0 (0.0%) Someone Else 3 (100.0%) Total votes: 3 « Created by: Grappler Truth Teller on: Aug 20^th, 2023 at 9:59am »