Savvy public servants push the cost of retirement up by billions

By Noel Towell and Markus Mannheim
Updated April 23 2018 - 9:51pm, first published July 26 2015 - 6:52pm

Taxpayers will have to find nearly $110 billion, almost 7 per cent of GDP, to pay the pensions of retired federal public servants, the latest Finance Department data says.

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