With respect chameleon that's a bit of a furphy. The public servants they are pushing to move are not in Sydney and Melbourne. They are in a relatively small regional city that just happens to be called Canberra.
What they are pushing for is to decimate one regional centre for the sake of others, usually in their own electorate *looking at you Barnaby*.
My family live in Canberra. Two DiLs are in the PS. Who will have to give up their job if they are in a dept slated to move? DiL or son? Should their children have to change schools and sporting groups etc because of some temporary pollies brain fart?
Even worse imagine a working couple, one working in Dept of Finance the other in Environment. Wife's position gets moved to Geelong, husbands to Ipswich. What are they supposed to do?
The PS is not like the Defence force or similar roles where you know when you sign on that postings are part of the deal and you are compensated accordingly.
Lets also take take a look at the many many small businesses in Canberra that would be adversely affected if this goes ahead. Coffee shops, independent supermarkets, brickies, plumbers. Should they just up and move to try to follow the work or stay and wither on the vine in Canberra, slowly going broke because of declining trade?
This whole idea is just a stupid populist thought bubble, started by Barnaby's pork barrelling, that will do nothing to increase efficiencies (probably quite the reverse) but will cost huge amounts of money and cause great anguish to many ordinary Australians trying to do their best.
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