In a move which highlights the aggression and haste with which this out-of-touch Labor Government chops out accountability in government, the Labor Party axed the quarterly financial reports in 2003.

The Government has itself made it necessary to sack 800 public servants through allowing the public sector to grow unchecked over the last 11 years. When Labor came to power in 1998, there were 24,855 public servants. As at 30 June 2008, there were 28,960 public servants. (And that figure is out of date by one year now…)

Our very real fear is that the Government will put the public sector through the pain of its so-called Employee Management Program only to lack the discipline to keep numbers in check in the future. Remeber, history tells us that Labor can’t manage money.

A Hodgman Liberal Government will inject discipline and accountability into this process by requiring each responsible Minister to provide a report to Parliament once every 3 months that details staffing movements in and out of their departments, the number of full time equivalent employees in their department and the total cost of employees in their departments at the end of each quarter.

We need a government with vision and leaderships for the future.

We need a change of government. Soon.