The federal public service's 34,000 empty desks in more than 500 buildings around Australia

By Noel Towell
Updated April 24 2018 - 9:58pm, first published February 8 2016 - 9:31pm

The federal government is to go national in its efforts to offload some of the hundreds of thousands of square metres of office space leased by Commonwealth departments but sitting empty.

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