Consultants boom, bureaucrats bust: the hidden cost of public service cuts

By Henry Belot and Markus Mannheim
Updated April 24 2018 - 8:49pm, first published August 26 2016 - 4:18pm

Top consultancy firms have cashed in on lucrative federal government contracts despite the Coalition promising to eliminate public sector waste and slashing up to 15,000 jobs.

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