A Failure to Communicate II

The biggest failure so far in this Chinese Virus time is from Governments, their bureaucrats, and the press. All have self interest at heart and it shows in their announcements and decisions.

Here in Australia we have:-

1. Federal or Commonwealth Government - a Canberra based two tiered entity representing 150 odd separate electorates in the lower house with another 76 members representing the states, riding over the states and being pushed back at every chance,
2. NSW Government - a Sydney centric two tiered system similar to the feds with 93 members in the lower and 42 members in the upper,
3. Victorian Government - Melbourne based and centric with 88 and 40 respectively,
4. Queensland Government - Brisbane based and fairly centric with 93 members in the one house only,
5. South Australian Government - Adelaide centric with 47 and 22,
6. West Australian Government - Perth centric with 59 and 36,
7. Tasmanian Government - Hobart based but representative with 25 and 15,
8. Northern Territorian Government - Darwin centric with 25 in the one house only,
9. ACT Government - quite a small area with 25 in the one house only.

Now to do populations roughly:-

1. Federal - 25,362,000,
2. NSW - 8,090,000,
3. Victoria - 6,595,000,
4. Queensland - 5,095,000,
5. West Australia - 2,622,000,
6. South Australia - 1,752,000,
7. Tasmania - 535,000,
8. ACT - 427,000,
9. Northern Territory - 246,000.

Local Governments (councils) are in number throughout Australia at 537, so an average of 12 councillors will give another 7,280. Local councils employ 187,600 which is approximately 10% of all public servants to give a total of 1,876,000 public servants.

Adding this all together in terms of bureaucrats directly funded by the proles is 1,884,116.

This is astounding 7.5% of Australia's population of 25 odd million.

The population of working Australians is about 12.5 million.

So bureaucrats are an even more astonishing 15% of Australia's working population.

So for every dollar that a worker makes, 15c is used to pay these desk sitting drones who tell us what to do and how to live our lives.

Are we over governed, yes, are there too many bureaucrats, yes, is it unfair that ALL these bureaucrats have not taken a single blade of hair off in the massive haircut that the proles have had to take at the decisions made by said bureaucrats, YES.

Just like the ABC, over employed, under worked, and overly represented in Australia's future.

Sack 15% straight away, get the rest to do a bit more work, this would be a great way to start to repair the over extended budget that these bludging bureaucrats have created by massive over reach.

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