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Rego up and public servants to be axed

As Baillieu takes his axe to the public servants, car registration is set to soar to replenish the state's budget bottom line

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15 Dec 2011

The Victorian Government will raise the cost of car registration and dramatically cut the number of public servants by 3600 in a bid to shore up its budget bottom line.

The treasurer Kim Wells released his budget update on Thursday and says the budget is expected to be in surplus by $147 million by this financial year. But the cut to public servants mean the government has broken an election promise that their will be no job losses in the public sector.

Source: The Age

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