Public Service Jobs

John Howard Lie #1

“Our plans . . . will involve not replacing . . . up to 2,500 positions over the first term of a Coalition Government-a process of natural attrition with no forced redundances.”
Coalition Public Administration policy document Election Campaign February 1996

The Truth:

In the first term of the Howard Government, 32,400 jobs were lost.
Budget Papers, 1997-1999