NSW Health - efficiency = sacking workers

Yes welcome to the weird world of George Orwell's "double-think" in the NSW public sector! Orwell put it this way in chapter 9 of his novel 1984:

"The power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them....To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies — all this is indispensably necessary. Even in using the word doublethink it is necessary to exercise doublethink. For by using the word one admits that one is tampering with reality; by a fresh act of doublethink one erases this knowledge; and so on indefinitely, with the lie always one leap ahead of the truth."

The NSW Labor Government keeps on telling us it is working to create "jobs, jobs, jobs". At the same time it has told us, via the November 2008 mini-budget, that it is working to make the public sector efficient, less bureaucratic, save money etc.

So how, pray tell, do we improve public services and simultaneously save money and protect and create jobs? The latest axe-wielding in NSW health is a bright-spark outcome from the idiotic mini-budget and the septic tank rhetoric of doublethink. Read this and weep!