Bludgers

I worked for over 20 year in the Commonwealth public service and never heard of anything like this:

WHILE NSW hospitals cry out for more staff, more than 159 public service health bureaucrats are being paid $15 million a year to sit around and do nothing.

The Daily Telegraph has learned that almost half those public servants whose jobs have been made redundant but still remain on the payroll as unregistered displaced employees are from within the health system.

A further 31 are from within the NSW Ambulance Service.

The expense is equivalent of 250 more 4th year registered nurses.

Although the Government claims to have reduced significantly the number of redundant public servants still on its payroll, the total unattached list remains at 628.

Of those, 230 are classified as registered - actively seeking redeployment in the public service.

A Freedom of Information document however has revealed the remainder, which includes all 159 health workers, are on what is known as the unregistered list, which the Government has consistently denied existed.....

Why did it take a newspaper to reveal this rort? We sure didn't hear about it at the last state election. Mr O'Farrell, can we have some opposing please?