LNP won’t limit bureaucracy’s wages explosion: Crisafulli
David Crisafulli has no plans to control public sector salary growth, despite the bureaucracy’s wage bill ballooning by more than 75 per cent in a decade under Queensland’s Labor government.
Mackenzie Scott
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