It was in the 1970’s I witnessed a paid consultant do a report for a local Australian Council. He was an American and had done a study and report for Los Angeles. Here in Australia, the work he was submitting was simply substituting and retyping the local council’s name where Los Angeles was written. The rot was already present.
Last year the NSW Education Department paid almost $10 million to Deloitte Consultants for ‘expert’ advice, not to mention how much of tax-payers revenue went into the pockets of the disgraced PWC for similar nonsense. This reliance on outside know-how is a ‘logical’ step up from the failed policy of governments employing experts in leadership to head up their departments. What return did we get? After all this time, NSW school system is on life support evidenced by the abject failure of this experts’ approach.
Source: $10 Million for consultants: a further step from reality – Pearls and Irritations