Published Thursday, 28 August, 2008 at 11:00 AM
Premier
The Honourable Anna Bligh
Springborg to cut 12,000 jobs from public services
Premier Anna Bligh told Parliament today that Opposition Leader Lawrence Springborg has jobs which deliver vital public services in his sights.
“Mr Springborg must come clean and tell Queenslanders exactly which ones he’s going to punt,” said the Premier this morning in State Parliament.
The Opposition Leader told a business function last week he will shrink public services by ‘attrition’.
“The rate of attrition in the Queensland public service is about 12,000 jobs each and every year.”
“So who won’t he replace?
“Maybe it’s the Admin Supervisor at Robina Hospital who looks after staff and patients medical records, the Business Services Manager for Cardiac Services at Townsville Hospital - then again it could be the casual aged-care nurse in Roma or the Hervey Bay admin officer for cancer-care – it might be all of them!”
“He glibly says no frontline people will be affected - but he’s cruelly unclear on which jobs gets cut.
“This stupidity has a clear down side. Frontline staff won’t have the support they now have and doing the administrative-support tasks themselves will take them off the frontline.
“He must tell Queensland which jobs are expendable and then from what sectors and regions they will come from?
“It’s all so contradictory. The Opposition has called for full-time teacher-aides in Prep classes. This would require 640 full-time people. How do they provide these while cutting thousands of other jobs?
“His unthinking on-the-run stupidity shows an ignorance of how the public service operates
“To the public servants – especially those in support roles – you’re in the Opposition crosshairs,” said the Premier.
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“Mr Springborg must come clean and tell Queenslanders exactly which ones he’s going to punt,” said the Premier this morning in State Parliament.
The Opposition Leader told a business function last week he will shrink public services by ‘attrition’.
“The rate of attrition in the Queensland public service is about 12,000 jobs each and every year.”
“So who won’t he replace?
“Maybe it’s the Admin Supervisor at Robina Hospital who looks after staff and patients medical records, the Business Services Manager for Cardiac Services at Townsville Hospital - then again it could be the casual aged-care nurse in Roma or the Hervey Bay admin officer for cancer-care – it might be all of them!”
“He glibly says no frontline people will be affected - but he’s cruelly unclear on which jobs gets cut.
“This stupidity has a clear down side. Frontline staff won’t have the support they now have and doing the administrative-support tasks themselves will take them off the frontline.
“He must tell Queensland which jobs are expendable and then from what sectors and regions they will come from?
“It’s all so contradictory. The Opposition has called for full-time teacher-aides in Prep classes. This would require 640 full-time people. How do they provide these while cutting thousands of other jobs?
“His unthinking on-the-run stupidity shows an ignorance of how the public service operates
“To the public servants – especially those in support roles – you’re in the Opposition crosshairs,” said the Premier.
Premier’s Office 3224 4500