Sacked public servants 'parked' in new division and paid to show up

By Noel Towell
Updated April 19 2018 - 8:12am, first published November 14 2013 - 12:05pm

As the public service in Canberra plans mass redundancies, one government department is preparing to pay hundreds of bureaucrats up to $130,000 a year “just for showing up’’.

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