Fed: Climate bureaucrats "twiddling their thumbs": Oppn

AAP General News (Australia)
04-29-2010
Fed: Climate bureaucrats "twiddling their thumbs": Oppn

The federal opposition says public servants working on the now-defunct emissions trading
scheme should not be paid to twiddle their thumbs.

The federal government has pushed back the start of its carbon pollution reduction
scheme to at least 2013.

Opposition climate action spokesman GREG HUNT says the wages bill from hundreds of
public servants working on the implementation of the scheme is about $90 million a year.

Mr HUNT would not be drawn on how many public servants should be sacked .. but says
the government must review jobs created to administer the scheme.

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KEYWORD: CLIMATE JOBS (CANBERRA)

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