David Pocock (ACT, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Finance, Senator Gallagher. Minister, I was hugely supportive of Labor's defence of the Australian Public Service at the last election and your move to end outsourcing and the overreliance on consultants. I'm concerned by reports today of a new austerity measure and would like to understand how many total jobs will be lost from the APS as a result of your move to require federal departments and agencies to cut five per cent of their annual budget in a single year. How many of these job losses will be in Canberra?