One of the Commonwealth’s biggest departments has moved to cull jobs and reduce workloads to meet cuts imposed in Wayne Swan’s MYEFO.
Budget cuts
Crikey Says: Name your poison
We’ve been here before with the “this will be a tough budget” routine from Wayne Swan.
Meat axe about to come down on the public service?
The “meat axe” promised in the election campaign was kept in the cupboard for last year’s budget. Has its time now come? asks Stephen Bartos.
Obama’s penny pinching on video
Barack Obama’s $100 million in budget cuts gets the Youtube treatment.
US Education Dept pinches pennies
How are the US Education Dept cutting costs? Sharing printers and no more trips to Paris, to start with…
Razor gang has DFAT under the pump
While the PM earns plaudits for his performance on the world stage, a grumpy Department of Foreign Affairs is implementing both a $57m cut and a new departmental review, writes Bernard Keane.
