Everyone (except the government) knows about the public service's end-of-budget-year splurge

By Markus Mannheim
Updated April 23 2018 - 10:50pm, first published August 29 2015 - 11:08am

Two years ago, Informant columnist Stephen Bartos cited the concerns of several senior public servants, who said excessive spending in the lead-up to June 30, 2013 was among the worst they had seen. Almost everyone in Canberra, whether in the bureaucracy or business, knows of this annual blitzkrieg on leftover budgets. For public servants, May and June is a time to spend; for businesses, it is a time to sell.

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