18 Sep 2025

Graduates struggle as public service grad roles cut

From Checkpoint, 4:47 pm on 18 September 2025

Graduates looking to start a career in the public service are finding themselves at a loose end, qualified and ready to jump into the workforce, but with nowhere to go. In the past two years close to a third of graduate roles and internship places have been cut from the public service. For some, the dire state of the job industry is driving them overseas or forcing them to leave their degree behind and take any job they can get. Now a campaign is underway to try and get some of the public service roles reinstated. Evie Richardson reports.