The Australian Antarctic Division has been told it will lose research and technical support jobs as a result of a $100-million budget cut to the federal Department of the Environment.
The department’s secretary, Gordon de Brouwer, and senior officials flew to Tasmania on 8 April to brief a meeting of around 300 AAD staff on voluntary redundancies.
Prime minister Tony Abbott has pledged to cut more than 12,000 federal public service jobs to achieve budget savings of around $5 billion.
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