Given James Patterson has decided to make the APS cuts a story again (masterful gambit, sir!), let’s just think about who will likely be cut or be likely to take a voluntary redundancy. Looking at the figures that are available for 2023, by FAR the biggest number of people leaving where from Services Australia. Which means CENTERLINK. Then comes Defence, the ATO, Home Affairs and the NDIA.

These are not the agencies/departments the Liberal Party like to portray as the fact lazy bureaucrats in Canberra.

And given the LNP have been pretty damn sketchy about what are a front-line services, those 41,000 cuts start hitting a lot of areas that are, let’s just say, pretty essential