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‘DOGE playbook’: Dutton vows to halve Canberra public service

Asked about his policy to reduce the bureaucracy by 41,000 positions, the opposition leader interjected with: “In Canberra.”

Copy link Copied Copy link Copied Subscribe to gift this article Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Already a subscriber? Login Peter Dutton says all public service jobs to be axed under a Coalition government would be in Canberra, signalling a near halving of the capital’s bureaucracy and sparking allegations he was working straight from Donald Trump’s DOGE playbook. Copy link Copied Copy link Copied Subscribe to gift this article Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.

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