Tag: national-commission-of-audit

Treasurer Joe Hockey has prevailed over hard-line factional rivals after the government started to massage down its APS job shedding estimates and moderate its message over the level of deep cuts needed.

Federal Treasurer Joe Hockey has given the green light to mass redundancies in government agencies to prosecute public service spending cuts in the forthcoming Budget.

The man tasked with finding ways to save money has nominated ballooning Commonwealth Superannuation liability as a big problem that will need to be addressed one way or the other.

Alarm bells are ringing in both the bureaucracy and and unions that the National Commission of Audit’s figure of 15,000 job losses is badly understated when measured against the real scope of recommended cuts and outsourcing.

Tempered vision for privatised computing and shared services functions return to the fray as potential shake-up under Budget looms large.

While welfare payments and tax shifts dominate National Commission of Audit’s wish list, there’s still plenty of potential pain points for the federal public sector.

After months of anticipation, the Treasurer and Finance Minister have released a review that is so ambitious, that many of its recommendations are unlikely to make it into policy.

Destruction caused by natural disasters has led to a concerted push by local governments for more money from Canberra and the states to alleviate potential future damage.

Public submissions normally collated and published online by the government have been dispensed with before the Budget.

By Julian Bajkowski The Abbott government has conspicuously excluded its election promise to cut public service staffing costs by $5.2 billion through the elimination of 12,000 positions from its Mid-Year…