The Coalition are still vowing to cut the public service to where it was three years ago, despite population grown as well as the fact that review after review (and experience) showed how bad the public service cap was for services.

(Things are still not great when it comes to services, particularly Services Australia – so imagine how much worse it could get)

James Paterson told RN this morning:

We will cap the size of the Australian Public Service and reduce the numbers back to the levels they were three years ago through natural attrition and voluntary redundancies