Would this be applicable to Australia as well?
ttbn,
I have worked alongside such people for many years & it is demoralising to say the least. Here in Qld, the present Govt has signed up some 28.000 new public servants I was told.
The only apparent usefulness from them was that they voted for the Govt that employed them.
One of our EO's spent $210,000 to shift loads of beach sand because quote"we had to be seen to do something" end quote.
All you need to do is to go to Pubs where workers congregate & you'll get some real horror stories regarding bureaucrats. The scariest part is that these incompetents are fully protected by the Govt that signs them up in return for votes. Much neede infrastructure gets put on hold because these people use up most of the funding for literally nothing in return to the taxpayer.

Public service is certainly out of control, and it covers up the real unemployment figures, and mass immigration grinds on - and grinds Australia down.

Very good thing

Public service is certainly out of control, and it covers up the real unemployment figures,
ttbn,
The signing up of people to do nothing of value for very handsome remuneration will bite us in the butt way more severely than it has thus far. Directing massive sums of public funding towards public servants who literally achieve nothing could actually be considered as Govt fraud.
The unemployed who do just as little get a mere fraction in comparison. So, how do Governments justify this massive inequality ?
Shouldn't all be treated equally ? After all, isn't that the catch-cry ?