Tag: Consultants

Govt consultants unchecked as NSW agencies flout rules

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
NSW agencies continue to direct source consultants and often fail to obtain conflicts of interest or evaluate their performance, despite the Minns government’s clampdown and years of warnings. The...

Contractor debarment scheme hits a Canberra wall

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
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...

Govt lukewarm on consultancy clean up

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The federal government has rejected dozens of bipartisan recommendations to clean up the consulting sector with structural change and more oversight, insisting its own reforms are doing the job....

All Albanese’s innovation sweeteners from the election

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
With Anthony Albanese and Labor claiming a decisive victory at the weekend’s election, attention now turns to the second-term government’s ambitious agenda for the next three years. Buffeted by...

NSW launches in-house consultant service across government

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The NSW government has launched an in-house Expert Advisory Network (EAN) aimed at reducing public sector reliance on outside consultants and making better use of existing expertise. Set up...

Outsourcing crackdown saves NSW $450m

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
A squeeze on external consultants and individual contractors by the Minns government has saved the state nearly half a billion dollars, NSW Finance minister Courtney Houssos announced over the...