Around 30% of the workforce are public servants! While w need those a the coalface, nurses, ambos, firies and the police we just don't need an army of double handling, middlemen, bureaucrats! We're with one exception the most over-governed country on the planet and have one country governed by what? Seven or eight competing governments.

And as three tiers of often over-regulated obstructionist government more concerned with their own survival than the country or the citizenry they allegedly serve!?

If we eliminated the roadblock middle tier, we'd lose nothing real except incompetence and corruption?

What we'd gain would be 70 addition annual billions in save revenue and a pool of money that could be repurposed for nation-building and wealth creation projects/self-sufficiency! Social housing etc!

And end forever any current opportunity by either federal or state government to duck shove ineptitude or incompetence etc-etc!.

None of what I've proposed in any part of my commentary will be possible or ever get done by the current crop of gormless, useless, self-serving pollies all of who will have to be removed if we would save this nation and keep it for we Australians.

Let alone rescue it as a vibrant forward-looking robust economy and a unified nation!
Alan B.

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Talking of government salaries. I read last night that Governor of the RBA gets over $2 million p.a. to drive down the interest rates to zero, and even minus. .

Yes. Minus is possible, and it is happening in Denmark, where it costs you money to keep money in a bank account, and people with mortgages are being paid to have them.

And, a Sydney Morning Herald scribbler says the Governor as 'progressive'.

The many bureaucrats on over $300,000, Uni Chancellors on an average of $1 million, CEO's on millions, Welfare recipients & Refugees on more than those on minimum wages, all add up to be unaffordable to the rest of us hence our competitiveness is out the window.
Our Unions have gone from being there for the blue collar worker to crapping on him.
Education has been so watered down that it is now acceptable to be insipid, in fact, it's the norm now ! We need to get practical, logical thinkers back into Authority, the dreamy Academic types have all but ruined this once great Nation ! We need to pull the plug & drain that swamp !