Consultants and contractors now outnumber public servants in Defence Department

By Noel Towell
Updated April 24 2018 - 8:33pm, first published February 20 2017 - 12:56am

The Defence Department's boss has warned he will be a "mongrel" if his executives do not trim the numbers of public servants working at the giant department.

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