THE Coalition could axe the Department of Climate Change and get the Environment Department to oversee its ''direct action'' climate policy as part of an attempt to save money by cutting 12,000 public servants, shadow ministers have suggested.
The opposition's finance spokesman, Andrew Robb, pictured, backed the idea first raised by the shadow treasurer, Joe Hockey, on the ABC program Lateline on Wednesday night, to get rid of the Climate Change Department, which employs more than 1000 people.
''We haven't made any final decisions, but certainly the expenditure that's going into literally hundreds and hundreds of bureaucrats in that area, if we remove the carbon tax we will remove the need for … the hundreds of millions of dollars of new expenditure that is being incurred,'' he said. ''And there is every reason why that department should be folded back in as part of the Department of Environment.''
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