Banjo- "I would palm them off to other Depts and simply not replace the ones that resign"

problem with your suggestion

since the CC civil servants were pointless and useless in the first place,

what are they going to be fit to do in other departments anyway?

for instance if they go to treasury....

at present treasurey have enough people making up bogus figures, they do not need more.

I suppose we could get them counting money -

then that assumes they can count and they are not allergic to touching dirty cash which someone in the real world sweated to earn in the first place

Health would be a no no, CC has the economic capacity of "the kiss of death".... so keep em away from where real peoples lives are at risk.

Defense ....

maybe you are right after all...

it might work....

the soldiers in Afghanistan could find use for 12000 human shields and on the bright side, we would not have to pay them for very long in that role not bother with repatriation back to Aus....

Yes, it could work... it really could..... :-)

Banjo! not even thinking of you.
But have a Captain Cook at the posts around you.
Tell me how are those contributions other than verbal graffiti and vandalism?
Aussie ocker need to sling mud at one another does not work in printed form.
JUST THIS consider Cols thought public servants should be used as human Shields in a war zone.
Is that comment Satire, humor, truly held view, intelligent, or just a badly written tag on the run on a verbal graffiti wall in need of repainting?
I need you Banjo in the boat people thread!

Col,
Public servants commonly transfer from one Dept to another. It makes little difference to a typist, filing clerk or other office worker which Dept they work in, (fill their time in). Few would be specialist in a sham Dept like climate change.

I'm not sure just how many employees the government has but with the normal turnover of staff the 12000 reduction could easily be achieved by natural attricion.

I thought you would welcome the axing of a Dept and the saving of the wage bill for 12000 staff. Accountants thrive on that sort of stuff.

Belly,
Glad you wern't including me. But the present incompedents only have themselves to blame for the critisism. I have a list of major stuff ups which I will remind people of at the next election. Its the least I can do for my country.

Don't worry, I will keep on with my opposition to the illegal boat people. I hope the Malaysia deal stops them coming, but time will tell

Banjo

*Its the least I can do for my country. Don't worry, I will keep on with my opposition to the illegal boat people. I hope the Malaysia deal stops them coming, but time will tell.*

Its so refreshing to see somebody saying those words- its the least I can do for my country!

No backing this political party- or the other.

Just thinking of Australia first and that’s what we need to see more of.

Thank you have made my day !

Col,

You did say like a good wine you only get better with age- wicked sense of humor :)

Hi Banjo “I thought you would welcome the axing of a Dept and the saving of the wage bill for 12000 staff. Accountants thrive on that sort of stuff.”

I would welcome it as an accountant but that is not my primary driver

I welcome it as a tax payer

I welcome it as a statement of ripping down the false idols erected by the zealots of environazism and watermelons

I welcome it as avoiding a complete waste of money and relieving the ordinary citizen of tomes of pointless regulation which the Dept of CC would inevitably produce.

I would welcome it because of one thing which dearest Margaret is accredited with saying

"Yet the basic fact remains: every regulation represents a restriction of liberty, every regulation has a cost. That is why, like marriage (in the Prayer Book's words), regulation should not 'be enterprised, nor taken in hand, unadvisedly, lightly, or wantonly'

I will always support freedom over regulation, especially the bad sort of regulation which socialists "wantonly" gratify themselves with

Kerryanne “wicked sense of humor”

Oh the humour is only a clue to the real McCoy

But that is for my wife to know (she is my match and equally wicked) and everyone else to speculate :-)

Dear Banjo,

Seeing as you genuinely seem to be interested in facts.
This is for your information.

1) Joe Hockey, the Shadow Treasurer, announced on
ABC TV'S Lateline that a Coalition government
would abolish the Department of Climate Change and
Energy Efficiency.

2) According to the Parliamentary Library this means
he would scrap the Climate Change Department, sacking
more than 1000 public sector employees.

3) This is an unjustified attack on public servants from
a Shadow Treaserur whose knee-jerk response to advice
about problems with his policy is to threaten the
public service.

4) It opens up a new hole in Mr Abbott's discredited
subsidies-for-polluters policy.

5) Under the policy the Coalition says it will conduct
a tender-based grants scheme to award subsidies to
polluters who promise to clean up their acts.

6) But with NO Department of Climate Change and Energy
Efficience, the Coalition would have no public
servants to draw up grant guidelines, to administer the
tender process, to negotiate grant agreements and
contracts and to monitor whether the polluters were
fulfilling their obligations.

7) Direct Action would be a giant, no-strings-attached,
handout scheme for big polluters with Tony Abbott and
Joe Hockey personally selecting firms to be rewarded
with billions of dollars in taxpayer-funded subsidies that
will cost households $720 more in taxes.

Mr Abbott and Joe Hockey are keeping up their mindlessly
negative scare campaign.