Australia ‘most bloated bureaucracy in the world’
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Economy suffocated by expanding public servant numbers.
Photo: DNUY
The urgent need to tackle and dismantle leeching bureaucracies is ever-present, especially with estimations that another 25,000 new public service jobs have been created since the Albanese government took power.
Will reckless spending ever be reined in?
BUREAUCRATIC MADNESS
Australia’s government public service burden is getting out of control.
It’s a shame that any discussions regarding this fact were dismissed as ‘Trump policies’ at the 2025 Federal Election, because it is an issue that needs addressing quickly.
Let’s take a look at just how bad things have become.
The latest data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) shows that public sector wage bills increased by 8% nationwide in 2023-24 alone – now sitting at $232 billion.
The federal government’s wage bill increased by 10% to $37.3 billion, while the number of federal public service employees increased by more than 4% to 365,400.
The states comprised 77% of public sector employment in 2023-24, numbering more than 1.9 million workers.
Data released last year by The Australian also showed that the nation’s public service headcount expanded at a far quicker pace than population growth over the 15 years to 2022-23. The public service wage bill also surged over the same period.
UBS Chief Economist, George Tharenou, told the Australian Financial Review that public sector wages had more than doubled since 2008-09, which was the last time wages increased by more than 8% per year.
The impact of public spending on the labour market is even more extreme when we consider the non-market (government-aligned) sector, which includes private companies whose funding is mainly derived from government spending.
All of this money falling into endless pits, and for what?
A supposed ‘strong job market’?
This too is a hoax perpetrated by the very same government taking all the public funds.
Since Q1 2022, just before the Albanese government came to office, overall employment across the Australian economy has grown by 4.1%.
Nearly all of this job growth, however, has come from the non-market (government-aligned) sector, where the number of jobs has expanded by an extraordinary 11.6%.
Much of this job growth is related to the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS).
In comparison, job growth across Australia’s market sector has stagnated, growing by only 1.1% over the same period.
This is a classic Labor strategy we experienced in QLD for many years: Create for useless jobs, even if it means bribing employers with subsidies, so the statistics look good.
The surge in government-funded jobs is one of the reasons why public spending hit an all-time high of 27.3% of GDP in Q2 2024, and is projected to increase further.
It really is a joke when one takes the time to look at it.
Furthermore, does a country of only 25 million people really need three levels of government? Especially when councils were rejected in a referendum?
To put it in perspective, Australia has 537 local councils, covering as many as 1.3 million residents for Brisbane City Council, the country’s largest by population, to fewer than 1600 for Perth’s Peppermint Grove.
There are 139 councils in Western Australia, 128 in New South Wales, 79 in Victoria, 77 in Queensland, 68 in South Australia, 29 in Tasmania and 17 in the Northern Territory.
“The level of duplication and triplication of state and federal roles is ridiculous,” said Dean Hurlston, President of Council Watch.
He is correct, it is ridiculous. From the top of government at a federal level, all the way down to the middle-of-nowhere councils rorting residents.
If we were to start anywhere, eliminating the third tier of government would do a great job in cleaning up some of this bloated spending of taxpayer money.
Councils that aren’t very popular across the country, no matter who you ask.
PEOPLE FED UP
There are countless examples of crooked councils all across the country: I’m sure everyone of you who is reading this has a story about your very own local area.
It would take forever to go through the countless examples of corruption, but I thought I might highlight some recent stories that have popped up.
For example, Northern Beaches Council (NBC) last month saw around 200 furious protesters outside a meeting where it voted to apply for a 40 per cent rates increase, sparking cries of “sack them all” from the public.
NBC later faced scrutiny over its bloated $171 million staff budget — employing 1800 people, including 111 managers, directors and executives earning a combined $25 million.
Meanwhile, North Sydney Council is pushing for an 87 per cent increase over three years after cost blowouts and delays in the redevelopment of the North Sydney Olympic Pool left it facing a financial “crisis”, with some locals blasting the proposal as “appalling”.
It is an obscene waste of money and is occurring way too often across Australia.
“Councils are not designed to run $100 million, $150 million projects and then manage their costs,” Hurlston continued with his earlier comments.
“You’ve largely got the bureaucratic lunatics running the asylum — unelected career bureaucrats who are overpaid and underperforming and can’t actually do the job, and councillors keep giving them pay rises.”
One poll conducted in 2023 found half of Victorians wanted local councils to be scrapped.
The RedBridge poll, conducted for the Herald Sun, found 45 per cent of respondents wanted councils scrapped, while a similar number supported the state government taking control of services provided by councils.
A highly questionable federal election result: Senator Babet
https://cairnsnews.org/2025/05/20/a-highly-questionable-federal-election-result-senator-babet/
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The entire system is fatally corrupted – needs demolishing and rebuilding with full transparency, ethics, integrity, honesty, finely tuned moral compasses and all must have a ‘ loving and caring human heart’ for the rebuild.
ALL MUST BE ‘ TO PROTECT ALL THE FREEDOMS, RIGHTS AND CHOICES OF ALL THE PEOPLE AND FOR EVERY PERSON TO LIVE IN FREEDOM AND PEACE AND A PLACE TO CALL HOME AND PLENTY OF FOOD ON THE TABLE ETC. ETC..
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THE SOLUTION
Our Constitution is REAL and LIVING! It was subverted, stolen by a global criminal cartel! It’s now time to reinstate it and the rule of law!
AUSTRALIA – The Timeline of Treason – By Dick Yardley
https://www.justonefocus.org/australia-the-timeline-of-treason-by-dick-yardley/
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DONATIONS TO THE AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY
DONATION WATCH AUSTRALIA
Donors for Labor
This page provides a comprehensive list of donors associated with Labor. Users can expand each donor entry to reveal a detailed breakdown of individual contributions made by that donor.
Since 2014, the Labor has received a total of 7569 donations exceeding A$1.00. The cumulative amount of these donations is A$74,889,082.00. The most recent contribution from Pfizer Australia Pty Ltd on June 30, 2024, amounted to A$2,400.00.
The top 5 donors for Labor are Pratt Holdings Pty Ltd (A$5,600,610.00), Australian Hotels Association (A$3,336,803.00), The Pharmacy Guild of Australia (A$1,940,450.00), Communications, Electrical and Plumbing Union – Electrical, Energy and Services Division (A$1,810,090.00), and Electrical Trades Union of Australia – Victorian Branch (A$1,633,736.00).
The largest individual donation, totalling A$1,500,000.00, was made by Pratt Holdings Pty Ltd on May 22, 2022.
The Labor’s most significant contributor is Pratt Holdings Pty Ltd, with a total donation amount of A$5,600,610.00.
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https://donation.watch/en/australia/party/ALP/donors
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The Australian Labor Party and Liberal Party both reap big benefits with millions in donations ahead of federal election
The Labor Party has emerged as the biggest beneficiary of cash and gifts received from external entities ahead of the upcoming federal election.
February 3, 2025
The Labor Party has emerged as the biggest beneficiary of cash and gifts received from external entities ahead of the upcoming federal election.
The Australian Electoral Commission published its transparency register on Monday, exposing the wealthy donors and political parties benefitting the most from donations.
Labor racked up $67.5 million in receipts – which include donations, member subscriptions and other proceeds – compared to $63.4 million for the Liberal Party.
The Greens accrued $9.2 million while The Nationals summed $8.8 million. Pauline Hanson’s One Nation posted $2.0 million.
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https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/the-australian-labor-party-and-liberal-party-both-reap-big-benefits-with-millions-in-donations-ahead-of-federal-election/news-story/a824eb0d8bf5170f52fb5012665827a2
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COVID – AUSTRALIAN POLICE BRUTALITY
https://www.topherfield.net/battleground-melbourne-crowdfunding-launch/
https://americanmilitarynews.com/2021/12/video-australia-forcing-people-into-quarantine-camps-despite-negative-covid-tests-reports-say/
https://crazzfiles.com/?s=police+brutality
https://crazzfiles.com/?s=melbourne+tyranny
https://cairnsnews.org/?s=police+brutality
https://cairnsnews.org/?s=battleground+melbourne
NEVER FORGET AND NEVER FORGIVE AND NEVER EVER ALLOW THIS TO HAPPEN AGAIN.
The Covid Tyrants and their Brutality Police Squads want Amnesty for all the Gross Violations of all our Democratic Freedoms, Rights and Choices – including gross violations of Nuremberg Code/Principles – our Sacred Medical Rights; Individual Rights to fully Informed Consent OR REFUSAL of any Medical Treatment, and the sacred oath of Medicine FIRST DO NO HARM, Unlawful Actions they have inflicted upon the entire population and the JAB/injections deaths and injuries, the damage, Destruction, and the economic destruction, we can’t dance, can’t Hug, can’t leave your home, masks – even masking up in our own vehicles, limited numbers at Funerals and Weddings, No Parties, etc. job losses due to unlawful Vaccine Mandates / Gunpoint Medicine, the elderly, lonely, sick, injured, desperate to see and hold their family members, the people who lay dying and their loved ones banned from seeing them and not able to give their loving embrace as they lay dying !
These were all inhumane Tyrannical Governments Actions and the Treacherous Tyrannical Politicians knew it and you All knew what was really going on and you All did it anyway.
NO AMNESTY EVER – Never Forget and Never Forgive.
NO MANDATES SHOULD EVER HAVE BEEN OR BE ENACTED BY ANYONE, ANYWHERE, ANYTIME FOR ANYTHIN
No Amnesty: Covid Tyrants Must Repent
https://crazzfiles.com/no-amnesty-covid-tyrants-must-repent/