The Department of Climate Change Annual Report does not appear to show how many employees although it may be in the financial section if anyone has the time to wade through the documents here:

http://www.climatechange.gov.au/about/accountability/annual-reports/annual-report-0910/financial-summary.aspx

Although there was this point on the first page of the link above:

"-expenses of $141.6 million—the majority of which reflect payments to suppliers ($67.7 million) and employees ($67.4 million) "

$67.4 million expenditure on employees does seem an absurd amount of money for a small portfolio even if the role extends to energy efficiencies.

Almost the same amount for suppliers which could be anything from paper clips to consultancies, facilities management etc.

Who will be first.
First to stop denigrating the other side of politics and those who support them.
Surely it is a worth while target.
Or are we all to drift in to the type of posts Col puts here.
Why are some ok, some not, why can us Lefty's become Socialist dregs, but Conservatives not?
Yes Hockey said that department would be first, but the 12.000 was always a target in total.
To be honest I am not sure I disagree with him, I do not share his views on climate change, at least the ones he says he holds today.
Like his party he has held opposing views.
But some one,maybe less? has to do the job, some one who can be trusted with our country's money and secretes.
Col may think we should contract the work out to the Chinese embassy maybe?
We could get the Walt Disney foundation to run treasury bring Scrooge Mac Ducks money bin.

LOL! Col, Love ya style :)

And, belly. Scrooge Mac Duck would do a far better job than the goose that's running it now!

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Yes, yes!
Pictures of swine feeding at a trough come to mind, I can even hear their grunts. Time to make Bacon!

Belly “First to stop denigrating the other side of politics and those who support them.”

Well -

We know it will not be you, Belly….

Whining on and complaining about my posts to all-n-sundry

Example “Col may think we should contract the work out to the Chinese embassy maybe”

I see you like to indulge in false predictions of what I might say

- I never do that to you....

and I do find you most insulting you by implication, lowering my thought processes to the best you can offer

I suppose you think it gives you greater (or maybe just some) ”credibility” by shouting opinions about what I am supposed to be thinking

Belly, doyen of the dozy league of socialists meddlers, I would not suggest outsourcing to China in a fit

What I would suggest is something which is way above your comprehension

I would suggest

The taxes spent on bureaucratic parasites – the jobs for the boys of the socialist and watermelon party machines and doubtless including the odd rent boy

Those taxes should not go to China

They should not be collected in the first place

They should have been left in the pockets of those people who earned the money, for them to decide how they want to spend it in the real economy and

not forced to pay for the fantasy “green” economy of wind farms and 17th century French peasants, which Gillard and her crooked cronies want to force on the real people in the real economy

RawMustard pleased you approve.. stick around, like a fine wine, I only get better with time

Unfortunately Belly is more your “Beaujolais Nouveau ” (no shelf life at all)

You know socialist politics were aptly described by George Orwell (maybe his own admission of guilt)

Whilst your vision of swine lends something from Animal Farm, I still feel socialists lean more prominently to 1984 as a solution to everything

I feel, as a Libertarian Capitalist, I owe much to G.O. and his graphic descriptions to the dangers of collectivism

"socialism" - a recipe for poverty

Belly,
I am denigrating Tony Jones because he did not say what he meant.

If you think I was denigrating Labor, then you are admitting that Jones is on your team. Many people say the ABC is biased.

Yes I would axe the Dept of CC and not even pay redundentcies. I would palm them off to other Depts and simply not replace the ones that resign. Such a large staff would turn over quite a few. 12000 would not take long to achieve overall.

One useless Dept gone and saving about $7 million a week, beauty!

...Carbon Tax booklet arrives on door step…Zip, straight into bin…I’ve already decided! F# clowns, sack the lot except centrelink, I wanna be paid….