Found this article on the pay rises for public servants it also included the number of public servants in Australia in a country of 25 million people this is a recipe for disaster.

As of June 2018, Australia was home to 1.987 million public sector employees, of which 240,700 worked for the Commonwealth government.

State governments employed 1.559 million of them with another 187,600 in local government.

In 2017-18, the total cash wages and salaries for the public sector added up to $158.6 billion.

Public administration and safety had the highest wages bill of $51.6 billion in 2017/18.

Those figure probably would not include the thousands that are employed on a temporary basis to replace people sick or on maternity leave.

It would also not count the many that the Government use as advisors etc.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6379253/Public-servants-enjoy-salary-increases-four-cent-double-rate-inflation.html

Why do you think that's a recipe for disaster?

Please know that includes local government, councils and ambo,police, road workers rail,some air port workers
It to includes school teachers, some health workers, and a host of others
every day services we use every day and demand such as boarder force,
the sky is not falling the figures are not bad in the end

why do you think we have so many Labour/Green voters?

Aidan - If you can't see why for a country of 25 million economically is not good nothing will change your mind.

Belly - Thank you, I never would have known that unless I read the 3rd, 5th and 6th line above.

Philip S,
Evidence would change my mind. But you appear to be baulking at the numbers despite the absence of evidence there's a problem at all, let alone a recipe for disaster.