Page 157 - Week 01 - Wednesday, 26 February 2014
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The impact of your funding cuts on Public Service jobs was never made explicit before the election.
They hid it. Let me repeat that:
The impact of your funding cuts on Public Service … was never made explicit before the election.
If those opposite look at the evidence given by the Parliamentary Budget Office yesterday, they made that point as well:
The Parliamentary Budget Office did not know the impact of your funding cuts on Public Service …
So the previous Labor government that you lot are the cheer squad for was cutting jobs and hiding it, and the evidence comes from the departmental secretary and from the Parliamentary Budget Office. He goes on to say:
The advice that the government has received is that, over the forward estimates, the funding profile that you determined—
you—
translated into 8,819 fewer Public Service jobs, and that that reduction combined with another 846 jobs from so-called more efficient management structures and 4,808 jobs through the additional efficiency dividend to 2.25 … takes the total reduction in public sector staff to 14,473—as a result of decisions that you made …
that is the previous Labor government, addressing Senator Wong—
before the last election—that were never publicly disclosed.
The decisions made before the election to cut 14,473 jobs were never publicly disclosed. What a grand deceit on the people of Australia. What a grand deceit on the people of Canberra. This mob at the last election, their mates in the CFMEU and Mr Sheikh were saying, “Watch out for the Liberals. Watch out for the nasty Mr Abbott. He’s going to cut the public service,” when, behind everybody’s back, this mob was cutting 14,500 jobs and deceitfully hiding that from the public. That is evidence given by a federal public servant, the head of the Department of Finance, in estimates, saying that the Labor Party, the Greens, the CFMEU and their mob—
Mr Barr: The CFMEU?
MR HANSON: Yes. Mr Barr interjects, but in the last election Mr Hall was out there—
Mr Barr: I think you mean the CPSU.
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