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PRIME MINISTER PRESS STATEMENT NO: 3-j( r
12 November 1974
AUSTRALIAN PUBLIC SERVICE
The Prime Minister, Mr Whitlam, M. P.,
said in his statement on the economy in Parliament this
evening that he would issue a statement on the question
of staff numbers in the Australian Public Service. In his
statement in Parliament, Mr Whitlam said that:
" Our program of Government expenditure has
been Achieved without excessive increases in the number of
public servants. The staff ceiling control on the Australian-
Public Service will be retained in a modified form. This
will be the subject of a separate statement."
The separate statement is as follows:
" The staff ceiling control on the Australian
Public Slervice which was announced in my statement to the
Premiers4 Conference on 7 June will be retained, so that the
healthy influence on departmental efficiency of the
disciplii~ s of internal priority review and staff redeployment
will be maintained. The Government proposes, however, an
extension of the trainee intake to the Public Service by up
to 450 so that additional appropriate opportunities are
made available for vocational training, and an additional
intake of 1,000 youth and school leaver recruits to basegrade
office categories so as to maintain an intake more
consistent with recent years. These special intakes will
lift the staff growth ceiling of the Public Service above
the previously announced figure."
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