Today Barnaby Joyce quizzed senior bureaucrats about who will measure all departments are have the 16sq metre standard space allocation for each public servant, despite the fact that departments' are only funded for this amount of space. While bemoaning his impression that Australia is on the brink of bankruptcy, he decided we needed more public servants whose job it would be to police all departments and measure all the sizes of their spaces. Who pays the public servants? Well, yes, the taxpayers... Was he actually advocating higher taxes to fund a vital public service role of National Director of Public Service Desk Measurement.

Now, there's a real productive, economy boosting job!