Australia Inc: Over 30 Percent of the Nation on the Public Payroll

The findings come amid warnings that welfare dependency in Western countries ends up creating socialist states.

People are seen lining up at the welfare service Centrelink in Melbourne, Australia, on March 23, 2020. Quinn Rooney/Getty Images

Taxpayer-funded employment now accounts for 31.3 percent of all Australian jobs amid warnings the country is following in the footsteps of other countries that have slid into socialism.

According to the study, “Leviathan on the Rampage,” by Robert Carling for the Centre for Independent Studies (CIS), found employment in three industries heavily supported by government funding—public administration and safety, education and training, and health care and social assistance—accounted for 26.2 percent of total employment in February 2013.