The Coalition have sent out Angus Taylor to clean up the mess of the public service policy.

Which is going as well as you could expect.

Taylor tells the ABC:

We made a mistake. It is always a tough balance to get it right between accountability and efficiency of any workforce and at the same time, making sure we’ve got flexibility, flexibility really matters in a modern workforce. (welcome to 2025, Angus Taylor!)

We want the public service to be the best it can possibly be. We want to make sure it’s a public service that isn’t bigger than it needs to be where our great public servants are empowered to do their best work, and getting the balance right of every taxpayer’s money, their flexibility matters too in a modern workforce.

So we have adjusted this, there was a very dishonest scare campaign running from Labor, of course, that this was across the whole – of the private sector workforce, which it clearly isn’t what we’re talking about, we’re talking here about the public service.

(The private sector tends to follow the public sector in these things, which is one of the reasons conservative economists hate it when the public sector raises wages)