There is “insufficient evidence” that the federal government’s $150 million program to streamline grants has delivered any benefits, and the scheme has failed to achieve three of its four...
The Industry department has paid consultants more than $15 million in the last 18 months across a number of contracts for assistance in delivering its grants programs, including with...
A Canberra consultancy will be paid more than $3 million in the first half of this year to help the federal Industry department assess grants across a range of...
A number of the largest grants from the federal government’s flagship $52 million program to support female founders will be reexamined after serious questions were raised about their eligibility...
Global consulting giant McKinsey will be paid nearly $1 million to provide a secret report to the federal government on how to increase the number of rapid antigen tests...
Just $85 million has been released from the federal government’s flagship $1.5 billion manufacturing program since it was announced in 2020. The biggest grants are currently being held up...
Global consulting giant PwC was paid $105,000 in a fortnight to provide just six staff to the Industry department to assist in the assessment and issuing of government grants....
The Industry department is spending five times as much on advertising the government’s net-zero emissions strategy as it did on experts to model the impact of the widely disputed...
Global consulting giant PwC is assessing government grant applications as part of a near-$2 million contract with the Industry department which the public sector union has branded “outrageous and...
The federal government is paying a consulting giant nearly $10,000 a day for supply and demand analysis of a critical diesel exhaust fluid but refuses to disclose exactly how...