DFAT puts the brakes on staff cuts

By Noel Towell
Updated September 16 2014 - 8:13am, first published 7:09am
More than 600 bureaucrats from DFAT, pictured, and the abolished overseas aid agency AusAID had inquired about a voluntary redundancy. Photo: Jeffrey Chan
More than 600 bureaucrats from DFAT, pictured, and the abolished overseas aid agency AusAID had inquired about a voluntary redundancy. Photo: Jeffrey Chan

Public servants still dreaming of a golden handshake from Foreign Affairs and Trade might have left it too late, with the department's redundancy program to slow down after shedding 270 bureaucrats.

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