The Herald Sun Business columnist Terry McCrann says the newly created jobs advertised by NSW and Victoria are “the 21st century’s version of paying people to dig holes and fill them back up again.
” The Australian’s Adam Creighton in an article in The Australian wrote about the 20 high-paid jobs advertised by NSW and Victoria requiring skills in “change, culture, transformation and strategy’, offering salaries above $3.5 million a year. Mr Creighton said these jobs were ‘nonsense jobs’. Mr McCrann said such jobs were “absolutely useless in terms of any real contribution to the economy.” “These jobs are advertised; they could have had a kicker – 24.
Reminds me of the old comedy skit of Charley Farley and Piggy Malone moving a hole across the lawn. One dug the hole, the other filled it in.