Big Four consultancies milking taxpayers for billions

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By Leith van Onselen

In February this year, a former Department of Defence and Business Council of Australia boss labelled the federal government’s consultancy spend “stupendous” and claimed that much of the $130 billion in federal government external spending should have been carried out by permanent public servants.

And in August, the Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit accused the Big Four consultancy firms of describing Aussie taxpayers as “The Dairy” because they milk the federal government for all it’s worth.

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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.