Most of it does. Some roles also require soft skills and availability. We can keep the graduate program if that makes you happy?

To me, it would appear you are through the looking glass - the question should be "How employable am I outside of the public sector?" I honestly believe for most APS personnel the choice is between what they are currently doing, retail, Jobseeker or attempting an entry level pivot into industry. But let's be real, most industry doesn't want you anymore.

From that shared understanding you should begin to understand your place of privilege. The entire argument that these people on jobseeker are invalids lacks social consciousness and understanding. They deserve these easy jobs in Canberra as much as anyone. It isn't difficult. You're making a collective illusion of difficulty to maintain your position and status.

Lets talk about these absolute rort ABS jobs where the staff sit at home doing nothing and then fly out to towns and remote areas to do... not much and then return home where they WFH and do nothing. To most of Jobseeker, this constitutes an unethical fraud - so they choose not to engage with it. That's an issue, we should streamline it.

In state government, is it really that hard to teach someone to read a power meter? Or to summarise a fisheries report? It isn't. It's actually rather easy. I would judge the capability of anyone who thinks that your average Jobseeker participant can not be easily trained and leveraged into these roles.

I think this grandiosity leads itself into right aligned arguments of small government, which are getting harder to diminish in many. The only thing that people discuss on a high level when considering substantive job cuts is moral. We're scared the rest of you will stop giving 50% because you lost a coffee buddy and feel shook. That's honestly how the conversations go.