(Australia, slang) The deliberately slow pace of work supposed to be typical of government workers.
1991 December 2, Donald Bowman, [https://web.archive.org/web/20060220123350/http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/parlment/hansart.nsf/V3Key/LA19911202026 debate before the New South Wales Legislative Assembly]:
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(Australia, slang, obsolete, or, historical) The amount work that a convict was required to complete each day.
: Why not just leave things as they are and say, "We are going to run this government organisation efficiently; we are going to make sure that the government stroke has disappeared, that the managers are on the ball and that the customer…
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