Departmental staffing projections signal ‘pivot to restraint’ in public service, but next budget to be best signal of what’s to come, say experts
A collation of the government’s 2022–23 departmental results reports shows 417,611.4 full-time jobs across the public service during the 2022-23 fiscal year, up from the 399,928.6 positions one year previous. That number is planned to shrink to 399,476.9 during 2023-24, and to 391,449 by 2024-25.
A breakdown of the latest federal departmental results reports show plans to shed about six per cent of full-time equivalent positions across the public service over the next two years, at a time when former Privy Council Clerk Michael Wernick says he thinks “we’re seein...
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