Victorian public servant roles to be axed in cost-cutting measures
Former Labor senator Stephen Conroy claims Victoria’s cost-cutting measures including axing thousands of public servants are due to some “hard decisions”.
The Labor state government will be axing the jobs despite federal Labor campaigning hard against Peter Dutton and the Liberals’ pledge to cut roles in Canberra public servants.
“The Victorian budget and the federal budget were in very different places,” Mr Conroy said.
“Jim Chalmers has been able to run two budget surpluses over the last three budgets, whereas the Victorian government has had commitments to huge infrastructure projects, and they’ve had a much looser budgetary situation.”
