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Fix the States, fix inflation : Comments
By Jason Falinski, published 27/5/2008Infrastructure bottle necks, high property prices, lack of skilled workers, and wage growth, mostly in the public service, are all the purview of state governments.
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The state government educates your children, builds roads, runs commuter trains, provides water, built our electricity grid, built our gas grid, provides a police force and law courts to keep you safe.
State public servants traditionally trade off pay for security. Public servants have to be qualified for the jobs they perform unlike people in private industry who get the job because the boss likes them. Traditionally private industry pays better than state public service, so if the employee of a private enterprise is earning less than a state public servant then they should get another job.
Don't blame public servants for your poor pay!