Why Australia’s governments are addicted to consultants

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By Leith van Onselen

The Australian’s Adam Creighton has written an article today on the huge surge in the use of consultants, which is second only to the United Kingdom:

AUSTRALIA has the second highest usage of consultants in the world, relative to GDP…

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About the author
Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.