Reality Bites By Nick Cater

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Draining the swamp

Draining the swamp

Dutton's planned cuts to the public service will be a blow to the bullshit economy

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Feb 03, 2025
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Say what you will about the productivity of commonwealth public servants, but between them they signed off on 1045 grant applications in the past fortnight.

That’s an average of 116 a working day, considering the Australia Day long weekend, which we trust they managed to celebrate in a properly patriotic manner.

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