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December 16th, 2011 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
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The Victorian Premier Ted Baillieu had promised to increase the public service, but instead his government is slashing 3600 public service positions. The union says it’s treachery and the government is also being criticised for sending mixed messages about the state economy.
Source: AM
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Duration: 2min 34sec
Topics:
unemployment,
business-economics-and-finance,
community-and-society,
government-and-politics,
vic,
australia
Transcript
TONY EASTLEY: The Victorian Government has been criticised for sending mixed messages on the state economy and breaking its word after announcing plans to cut thousands of public service jobs.
The day before he was elected premier Ted Baillieu told AM he would not cut the public service but his Government now says 10 per cent of public service positions have to go.
Simon Lauder reports.
SIMON LAUDER: A budget update released by the Treasurer Kim Wells says Victoria is headed for a bigger than expected budget surplus. But it will come at a cost to the Victorian public service.
KIM WELLS: Our policy is to reduce the VPS numbers by 3,600 by the end of 2013. We’ll achieve this through voluntary departure processes and through non-renewal of a number of fixed term positions across the VPS.
SIMON LAUDER: It also comes at the cost of a promise. In May the Premier Ted Baillieu said the Government would increase the number of public sector workers by 4,000. He also ruled out cutting the public service when he spoke to AM the day before last year’s state election.
(Extract from archives)
TONY EASTLEY: You’re saying that they’d be reductions in the public service but surely …
TED BAILLIEU: No Tony. Let me stop you.
TONY EASTLEY: Alright.
TED BAILLIEU: Absolutely no reduction in public servants. I’m not going to cop this line from the Labor Party.
(End of extract)
SIMON LAUDER: The Government says no frontline services will be affected by the job cuts.
The secretary of the Community and Public Sector Union Karen Batt disputes that.
KAREN BATT: The announcement is both deceitful and it is also disgraceful.
Ten days before Christmas to announce unilaterally with no forewarning a reduction of 10 per cent of your entire workforce and claim it’s not going to have an impact on service delivery – it’s utter nonsense.
SIMON LAUDER: The Dean of Social Science and Planning at RMIT University David Hayward says the move will help get the budget into a sustainable position but it’s been poorly handled.
DAVID HAYWARD: We’ve had the State’s Treasurer say that the financial crisis, big problems inherited from the previous Labor government and we ended up with a budget that was actually quite generous. And now we’ve slipped quietly back into the more crisis rhetoric.
SIMON LAUDER: What do you think the impact will be on services?
DAVID HAYWARD: Oh look it’s actually pretty hard to tell because in that generous first budget they did impose a number of efficiency measures at the same time as they introduced new initiatives.
What this is going to do is tighten the screws even further.
The big question is can these efficiency measures be delivered and can they be delivered in a way that people don’t feel like services have been taken away. And we won’t really know that until those cuts really start to take effect.
TONY EASTLEY: Professor David Hayward from RMIT University speaking to Simon Lauder.
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