The Federal Government has hundreds of small "Boards" and "Tribunals" etc, often with only a handful of staff.
My guess is that these will just be merged into bigger departments. There is nothing new about this. Effectively these small organisations always got their budgets and policies from the big departments, and often shared office space anyway.
There has been a trend towards this anyway, and a lot of this consolidations has already been quietly done over recent years. I'd be surprised if there were 175 of these small operations left. Sounds good in the media though!
CASA and ATSB are too big with too discreet a function to be caught in this net.
Last edited by peterc005; 14th Dec 2014 at 23:07.