"Some of those positions of course have not been filled yet, so they're projected numbers. They are not even positions yet,"he said.
"I don't know any other country in the world where somebody would be running to be the prime minister while hating on the nation's capital."
"You rip out 15 per cent of your workforce and $7 billion of salaries — that puts a massive hole in our economy."
"If we saw 41,000 public service jobs in Canberra being cut, there's obviously some massive impacts for business,"Mr Hartford said
"It seems to me that nobody's really focused on the business impact of the proposed public service cuts at this stage,"Mr Hartford said.