Sentence examples for efficiency dividend from inspiring English sources
But asked whether the cuts were in fact an efficiency dividend, Turnbull said: "It is not an efficiency dividend, no.
Efficiency dividend increased across public service by 0.25% for three years, saving $569m.
It also included one Julia Gillard-era measure: the university efficiency dividend that Labor now opposes.
The party will continue to oppose the efficiency dividend that would have saved $920m over four years.
The two-year freeze replaces a proposed 2.5% efficiency dividend on commonwealth grant scheme payments in 2018 and 2019.
Efficiency dividends were levelled on it under Labor, that reduced staffing further.
Security concerns can drive operational simplifications that pay efficiency dividends as well.
Moreover, they have long been part of the routine operation of government, reflected in the imposition of annual efficiency dividends, first imposed by the Hawke government at the dawn of the digital age in 1987.
A further $6m disappeared to fund the Book Council that never happened, and was then absorbed into general revenue instead of being returned, and there were further "efficiency dividends" that cut the budget even further.
It also comes as Australia's national institutions, including the National Library of Australia and the National Archives, the National Museum of Australia, the national gallery, portrait gallery and the Museum of Australian Democracy, have faced redundancies and service constraints due to budget cuts and annual "efficiency dividends".
