The federal public service's 34,000 empty desks in more than 500 buildings around Australia

By Noel Towell
Updated February 9 2016 - 12:13am, first published February 8 2016 - 11:30pm
The Commonwealth has 34,000 empty desks in more than 500 buildings around Australia, including Canberra. Photo: Graham Tidy
The Commonwealth has 34,000 empty desks in more than 500 buildings around Australia, including Canberra. Photo: Graham Tidy

The federal government is to go national in its efforts to offload some of the hundreds of thousands of square metres of office space leased by Commonwealth departments but sitting empty.

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