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08-02-2013, 01:13 PM
Cuts to public service budgets are fuelling bullying within the federal bureaucracy, a union says.

The Community and Public Sector Union says a handful of recent court cases involving the "bizarre medical claims" of some public servants are feeding the "myth of the bludging bureaucrat".

Yet its national secretary, Nadine Flood, says the rising number of public servants who say they were psychologically injured at work is linked to the government's economy drive.


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