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Australia, the public sector workers’ paradise

21 September 2018

2:36 PM

21 September 2018

2:36 PM

How many people are employed in Australia by all three levels of government?

If you have answered “too many”, you are correct. If you have answered “almost two million”, you’re also correct. The exact number as of June last year is 1.956 million. As Catalaxy Files notes, this number does not include private sector workers contracted for government work.

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