The management consultants that ate Canberra

<p>Since coming to power the federal Coalition has chipped away at the public service, increasingly outsourcing key functions of government to private companies.</p><p><br></p><p>In the past 18 months everything from the vaccine rollout strategy, to advice on manufacturing the vaccine has been contracted out to management consultants.</p><p><br></p><p>The trend has raised important questions about transparency, and the long-term sustainability of government services.</p><p><br></p><p>Today, senior reporter for The Saturday Paper Rick Morton on how private management consultants took over the public service.</p><p><br></p><...