Rudd to slash bureaucratic fat 1 All-round Country Edition

Mr [KEVIN Rudd]'s razor gang promise, likely to alarm Canberra's large population of public servants, comes as his Labor Party continues to lead the Government in opinion polls ahead of Saturday's poll. Repeating his election campaign mantra of economic conservatism, Mr Rudd said his...

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Published inThe Australian (Canberra, A.C.T.)
Main Author Matthew Franklin, John Lyons
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Canberra, A.C.T Nationwide News Pty Ltd 22.11.2007
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Summary:Mr [KEVIN Rudd]'s razor gang promise, likely to alarm Canberra's large population of public servants, comes as his Labor Party continues to lead the Government in opinion polls ahead of Saturday's poll. Repeating his election campaign mantra of economic conservatism, Mr Rudd said his razor gang, headed by finance spokesman Lindsay Tanner and Treasury spokesman Wayne Swan, would slice through the bureaucracy but leave services to the public untouched. "When I talk about the razor gang, I am dead serious," Mr Rudd said yesterday. "It's probably not the right town or possibly the place to talk about it here in Canberra. "I am confident that the program we've put forward is a substantive reformist program," Mr Rudd said. "I am confident that members of our party, in all their diversity, will be in there behind the implementation of that program. For all our faults the Labor Party is about decency."
ISSN:1038-8761