Peter Dutton has once again refused to provide any real detail on his plan to cut 41,000 public service jobs - encouraging Australians to trust him to reveal the detail after the election.
This lack of honesty should concern every Australian. Peter Dutton is keeping people in the dark about the impact of these cuts because he knows the community won't support them.
Australians cannot trust Peter Dutton with our public services.
He has now released multiple conflicting versions of this policy, but still won't say which jobs will go, which agencies will be cut, or which vital services will cease to be delivered.
The latest version of his plan to slash public services is to cut 41,000 jobs from Canberra. This would do enormous damage to national security, emergency response capabilities, and have a disastrous impact on the delivery of frontline services across Australia.
You cannot cut more than 60% of the APS workforce in our national capital without crippling the services they power across the entire country.
This also shows that Peter Dutton does not understand the critical work that is done in our nation's capital or how our country's public services work.
Peter Dutton wants Australians to believe these cuts can be made without consequence, but that's simply not true.
Quotes attributable to Melissa Donnelly, CPSU National Secretary.
24 April 2025
