News Flash

The Public Service Association says the State Government has no justifiable reason to continue with its plans to slash $750 million from the public sector, following news of a $780 million GST windfall in last night’s Federal Budget.
A huge increase in GST collections will give South Australia an extra $782 million.

Treasurer Kevin Foley created the Sustainable Budget Commission to find $750 million in cuts – that supposed black hole has just been plugged.
To continue with plans that will inflict further pain on the community through cuts to services that are already stretched would be incomprehensible.
These cuts were announced at the time of the global financial crisis – clearly the landscape has changed.

In light of this most recent news, any attempt to continue with slashing services would be utterly offensive to South Australian families, who are already impacted by a severely stretched public sector. 

The PSA says the State Government must act immediately to relieve the Sustainable Budget Commission of its arduous task.

If the South Australian Government is serious about delivering better services for the community and is not just stuck in a spin cycle, then now is the time for it to act.

The South Australian Budget will be handed down in September.

 (Peter Christopher, Chief industrial Officer, pgc@cpsu.asn.au or  8205 3220 )

12 May 2010