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Press the self destruct Dutton

Petter Mutton, Gina Bo Peep's bald white sheep

3:41 says Jacinta Price has had to repay improperly claimed expenses 13 times "totalling almost $11,000". While the original DOGE guy, Elon Musk, apparently gets $8m per day from the US government and hasn't repaid ANY back. Jacinta Price could easily "save" what she's been costing the government and she could even cut indigenous funding costs since she is one. Though you did just say that it just "seems a little.... I don't really care who runs it" so you're not placing a lot of importance of the point about Jacinta Price anyway. Thanks.

Haha, love how you take swings at us Kiwis 😁

I really like this Ozzie Greek presenter on here but he hates kiwi's, am I being FinDomed?!?

Problem with the big four consultants is they have made the public service rely on contractors to the jobs. It will take years of rebuilding to make it better.

Remember the US currently has a USD36Tn deficit with annual interest on the db now exceeding their Defence budget - there is plenty of low-hanging fruit to cut in their annual USD2Tn deficit in the effort to get their spending under control. Dutton's doge, to date, hasn't actually identified any waste/fraud to cut other than 'public servants' - and the PS increase under Labor was to replace long term Tier 1 "Above The Line" ATL consultants, usually at 2 or 3 times the cost of an equivalent PS. ATL can be translated to 'should really be PS but headcount'. The fact that US DOGE found uncategorised Treasury transfers out is astounding from an Australian perspective. Our Australian National Audit Office provides a check-and-balance & hell descends on anyone who fails an ANAO audit here. Thank you for not making this another hit piece on Musk! Disclaimer - I drive a Tesla and like it a lot, saves heaps on petrol and maintenance costs.

Scary

The hair on the back of my cat fell out. It was Harry Belefonte. I knew cats can't stand reggae: it confuses them. They mince around looking all Egyptian, trying to walk sideways, but not really getting anywhere. I killed the radio and put the cat out.

I've worked in various government roles for nearly 20 years. DOGE is needed. But not quite the way America is rolling it out. If they roll doge out on a partisan spin (which is what I suspect will happen) nothing will change and shit tonnes of tax payer money will continue to be wasted. There is a chance for a genuine win here, but the likely sad outcome will be that Aussie politics use the word DOGE as a marketing slogan and do 2/10ths of fuck all with it.

FJ FTW