{"id":326231,"date":"2025-12-04T02:23:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T02:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/326231\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T02:23:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T02:23:08","slug":"shots-fired-across-australias-bloated-public-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/326231\/","title":{"rendered":"Shots fired across Australia&#8217;s bloated public service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australia\u2019s unemployment rate is currently at a historically low 4.3%, and the Reserve Bank of Australia\u2019s (RBA) most recent Statement of Monetary Policy predicts that it will continue around this level until the end of 2027.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1764814988_921_RBA-unemployment-rate-forecast.png\" width=\"660\" height=\"524\" alt=\"RBA unemployment forecast\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The fundamental reason for Australia\u2019s low unemployment rate is that government spending has resulted in a record increase in government-funded jobs.<\/p>\n<p>Data from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apsc.gov.au\/sites\/default\/files\/2025-11\/APSC%20State%20of%20the%20Service%20Report%202024%E2%80%9325.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Australian Public Service Commission<\/a> (APS) shows that the number of federal public servants increased by 7.4% in 2024-25, to a record high of 198,529. The public service headcount has increased by 24.7%\u2014or 39,350 people\u2014since Labor took office in May 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/APS-headcount.png\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia\u2019s unemployment rate is currently at a historically low 4.3%, and the Reserve Bank of Australia\u2019s (RBA) most&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326232,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,164],"class_list":{"0":"post-326231","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-economy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}