The management consultants that ate Canberra
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The Public Sector Is Being Hollowed Out
The government is instead paying private consultances to do those jobs. So what does that mean for the public sector? Well tis i something that actior goes right back to the late 19 eighties. It's vital that was then reinforced by john howard when he made a couple of changes to the public service act in the late 19 nineties and started chipping away at things. You need a certain number of statg employees, but i think it's fair to say that the number appointed by the present government has got a little bit out of proportion.
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