Your views: on Labor’s public service cuts and more
Today, readers comment on Labor’s plans to trim the public service if elected, a reinstated train into Port Adelaide’s heart, and urban design.
Commenting on the story: Public service savings, executive cuts to offset Labor’s spending spree
I’m surprised that we have any public services left considering every government has said in the last 10 years they would cut back public servants and make them redundant. Can we be told which parts of the public service will be cut? – Rob Haak
What a ridiculous notion that stripping out back office jobs does not impact frontline services. Who does Mullighan think will do the functions when the back office is cut?
Either it is the front-line staff (and therefore service provision is affected) or things won’t get done. Maybe things like criminal history checks and processing supplier payments in a timely manner.
This is Labor’s best and brightest? I wouldn’t let Mullighan manage my piggy-bank. – Lachlan Miller
Employing 350 more ambos isn’t going to fix ramping; it just ensures the recurrent cost of health is increased year on year. We have to acknowledge that healthcare expenditure is just a bottomless pit to throw money into; the more you give the more it demands.
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A more effective approach would be to focus on improving the utilisation of the services we already have i.e. focus on ways to lower unnecessary consumption of limited services. For example, invest more effort in educating people to not turn up in Emergency with a minor ailment that could/should be handled by a GP.
Maybe even charge a small copayment of $20 for Emergency presentations with reasonable exceptions. People don’t value services that are delivered free. – Paul Venables
Commenting on the story: Labor’s $52m pledge to get Port Adelaide rail extension back on track
Good idea. Can we also have the 333 bus route reinstated to a workable timetable. Stephan Knoll, no master of good judgment, decimated this vital route while he had power. – Jeremy Bryce
Commenting on the opinion piece: If we want to grow Adelaide, we need to plan for it
I’m not at all opposed to the idea of an underground train system – I lived in Sydney for 25 years and used trains extensively. But they are so expensive to build!
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Surely a cheaper (though still not cheap) expansion of the trams would work just as well. It works in Melbourne.
It would be useful to have an e-tag for access into the city to reduce congestion. Also, why do we not have a grid of one way streets in the CBD? The rectangular shape of the street grid would make it easy to implement and allow more tram lines or bus lanes while still maintaining flow.
Finally Victoria Square, despite the hugely expensive makeover a few years ago is still a dysfunctional eyesore. At the very least close off Grote St/Waymouth Street where it runs through the park. Italian cities have no problems with traffic circling their plazas. – Robin Chase
Oh noooo. Here we go again. And this fellow dares to insult us with his NIMBY’s line. My backyard is already full!
On the one hand we have all the evidence we need that there are simply too many people here already. Expansion out into the Hills and way north and south. Apartments going up everywhere. Throw in urban consolidation. Roads needing to be built. Struggling public transport. Schools needing expansion. Not enough medial staff or hospitals for the population we already have. River systems either polluted or running out of water. An agriculture sector already very efficient and nary little productive land remaining to produce more. A fishing sector at its limits and under restrictions. How much more evidence do we need?
This bloke is an architect and I suspect he’s stuck in the self interest mould. I suggest perhaps he’d be better off putting his mind to a sustainable and efficient building sector with the resources and demand we already have, not by perpetuating the obvious folly of his belief in perpetual growth and perpetual resources.
May I suggest we all drop the major parties and vote Sustainable Australia Party. We cannot continue as we are for the sake of climate change, for our environment, for our sakes especially all our children’s sakes. – Peter Hayward
Guy is a visionary. We need more of them. And we need the imagination in Government to recognise a good idea when it happens.
The idea that public infrastructure has to be “profitable” is strangling our state, or perhaps the country. Decent public infrastructure should be the core business of Government (not funding luxury Lodges on KI) to enable us as citizens to respond in a vibrant way to move Adelaide out of the 18th Century.
I too would love to see better design everywhere: from the ghastly beige tin sheds throughout suburbia to the insidious creep of “developer driven” bad corporate design and its effects on public spaces. – Caroline Johnson
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