Cutting public service comes at a cost, page-51

No one wants to see front line workers cut, it's all the extra's, the middle managers and those who's jobs finished long ago who're just sitting around getting paid to do nothing

There are plenty of these stories around. Public servants are an untouchable group in a lot of cases and govts(both sides, although probably less from the coalition) refuse to or can't sack them once their job is done.

http://www.news.com.au/national/pub...s/news-story/04acdc628946358c1182301b8512ca67