Overbearing?
OPINION: Dust ups between rural media and PR types aren't unheard of but also aren't common, given part of the job description of PR is to grease the wheels and ensure clients get good media coverage.
New spending will drop from $2.4b to $1.3b though, with Willis wary of the interest bill spiraling out of control.
She criticised "extravagant" wage demands such as the 12% claim by striking senior doctors.
Some commentators opined that savings are likely to come from stalled programmes and unfilled vacancies - not mass redundancies.
Your old mate reckons the public service needs to wake up and realise the country's coffers have been left in a right state and some spending demands are necessarily off the table for the foreseeable.
