A union-backed plan to ban unethical suppliers from federal work for five years ran into a roadblock from government agencies and Labor and Liberal senators on Friday.
A Senate inquiry heard from multiple expert witnesses that the proposed debarment scheme would deliver consequences that would drive change in the scandal plagued and mostly unregulated consulting sector.
But the Finance department, government and opposition Senators countered that it was unnecessary, risky …
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