The video from Services Australia’s Instagram on June 4 promoted subscriptions for 2026 Census updates, a service launched in May with the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
Critics on X called it wasteful frivolity funded by taxes, especially as call wait times average 20-50 minutes and federal debt nears $993 billion by June 2026.
While some see it as low-cost social media engagement, others demand cuts to public sector jobs amid rising bureaucracy concerns.
Services Australia has not responded publicly.
What ever happened to just doing the job?
There is a % of my taxpayer dollars going to these clowns and it makes me sick. i’m working fking hard for these Services Australia clowns to dance like 5 year old school girls in a dance class.
Time to put an absolute BROOM through the entire bureaucracy.
Austerity measures are necessary.
85% of back end taxpayer leaches must go, along with any government that thinks this is good governance.