Alternative jobs don't exist for most displaced public servants and as time passes even less jobs will be there.
The private sector is automating at a rapid pace and will not be hiring so many new employees in the future.
The public service is going down the same track and will have less employees as time goes on.
Computers do a lot of PS work now and I don't think there are many paper shufflers left.
Most public servants today are frontline staff, nurses, police, ambos, teachers, child safety officers, licencing officers, court officials, council workers maintaining roads, parks and gardens, immigration assessors, passport issuers, national parks rangers, the armed forces, Centrelink staff etc etc etc. This belief I see pushed here that public servants are shiny arsed paper shufflers that we would be better off without is wrong.
The over regulation we suffer in this country is the result of laws and regulations introduced by our parliaments. Excessive regulation and red tape can only be removed by our politicians voting to do so in our parliaments.
Dave R.
