Plans by the Abbott government's Commission of Audit to cut tens of thousands more federal public service jobs remain on the table following Tuesday’s budget cuts.

The bureaucracy faces a nervous six months until the "third and most comprehensive phase of consolidation in the number of government bodies", to be announced by the government in the mid-year budget update handed down around November.

And new Finance Department figures show Treasurer Joe Hockey's budget axe will fall quickly on the Commonwealth workforce: 8200 full-time public service jobs – nearly half the total slated losses – to go within a year.



Many public servants in agencies or programs earmarked for abolition by the Commission of Audit but spared by Tuesday's budget believe they have no more than a "stay of execution" after the federal government said that much of the commission's plans were still being considered.


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