More ambulance jobs for front line

17 December 2007

Queensland Premier Anna Bligh has announced that more than 100 Queensland office jobs will be cut in favour of a further 100 paramedics.

"We need the QAS to get back to basics (with) less people at head office and more on the front line," she said.

Ambulance services received a record $404 million budget allocation and Bligh is committed to the money being used to service the public with her already promising 250 new ambulance officer jobs.

Not surprisingly, union officials are up in arms over the planned office jobs cuts, claiming that 100 ambulance officers wasn't going to fix the existing problems.

Probably not, but it's a start in the right direction.


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