Government efforts to strengthen public service and decrease reliance on consulting firms

If you were a public service chief picking a firm to run ethics training, would one of the big four consulting firms be your first pick?

They have faced intense scrutiny both in the media and in a recent senate inquiry, which will today release its report with recommendations to keep the private consultancy sector in check.

Today, special correspondent for The Saturday Paper Jason Koutsoukis, on what the crackdown might entail and why the public service still thinks a consulting firm is best placed to teach ethics to its leaders.

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Guest: Special correspondent for The Saturday Paper, Jason Koutsoukis

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