the Coalition's efficiency dividend hike may mean longer wait times and reduced services
- Written by Andrew Podger, Honorary Professor of Public Policy, Australian National University
On the eve of the election, the Coalition has said it will impose a higher “efficiency dividend” on public service agencies over the next four years in an effort to cut public service spending and address the budget deficit.
An efficiency dividend is a measure, first introduced by Labor in the late 1980s, that reduces the budgets of...
