23,000 bureaucrats overseeing green schemes

Since coming to office in 2007, Rudd and Gillard have increased the Federal "Green workforce" by 75% .. and there are now more than 23,000 bureaucrats employed nationally by taxpayers to "oversee" our growing "green-tape" burden. This figure is set to grow further as the six new government departments that oversee the Carbon tax "resource-up".

http://www.aph.gov.au/senate/committee/scrutinynewtaxes_ctte/carbontax/report/c05.htm

To put this in perspective - here are some employement numbers to consider:

Westpac - 27,138
BlueScope Steel - 18,000
Centrelink - 23,315