The big four consulting firms have increased their federal business by 400 per cent over a decade while donating steadily to the major political parties that shape big decisions on government projects.
Source: Big four consultancy contracts blow out to $1.4 billion
LNP were the greatest bunch of liars we have experienced as a government employed to serve the Nation. They should never be allowed back. A Public Service on Contract is a Service always under a precarious employment future and readily manipulated to serve the government rather than the people.
A total of 54,000 full-time equivalent workers were consultants, contractors and labour hire staff, while 144,300 public servants were actually employed in the APS. Labor says the blowout in external contractors was because the Coalition was pretending to cap APS numbers to look like it was clamping down on public employment expenditure. Minister for the Public Service Katy Gallagher said the results of the audit painted a true picture of the APS workforce under the former government.
Source: National Times – Coalition relied on a “shadow workforce” in the… | Facebook
The spiders web of Government Accounting
PwC leaked secret tax data from its government work to foreign tax avoiders, potentially costing Australians billions. Like nothing ever happened, they are now picking up multimillion dollar public contracts again. Callum Foote reports. Three months
Source: Pity about the corporate treason; PWC is back winning juicy government contracts – Michael West
This is the moral equivalent to the hacking charges brought against Murdoch in the UK. Murdoch simply revealed all the confidentialities provided to him by the Dems and their agents. Would you sign a contract with this man or his companies?
“During Trump’s campaign, Rupert provided Trump’s son-in-law and senior advisor, Jared Kushner, with Fox confidential information about Biden’s ads, along with debate strategy … (providing Kushner a preview of Biden’s ads before they were public),” the filing alleges, citing Murdoch’s sworn deposition.
Source: Fox News is Republican propaganda, according to Rupert Murdoch | Media Matters for America
A second company linked to the Exclusive Brethren won more than $100 million in government contracts for protective gear during the pandemic.
Dubbed an “extremist cult” by former PM Kevin Rudd, the group has condemned homosexuality, requires women congregants to wear head coverings and has been accused in courts of forbidding contact with family members who choose to leave.
Senior church figures including a son of global leader or “elect vessel” Bruce Hales, were behind a company awarded $26 million by the federal government to supply Covid tests, TND revealed last week.
It can now be revealed a second company run by a church member and with direct links to Mr Hales’s sons’ was awarded another $105 million in contracts to supply the government with tests and equipment during the pandemic.
Source: Second Exclusive Brethren company scoops COVID contracts
Private consultation was promised to be cheaper, more efficent, allowing money to be spent elsewhere.
Since the Coalition took office in 2013, contracts awarded to the big four accounting firms have risen by 209%, or by $70 million per year on average, from $309 million to $936 million in 2021.
Source: Coalition continues to spike consultancy costs to a billion – Michael West
The arms company at the centre of a deadly criminal saga and numerous global corruption scandals, Naval Group, was selected by the Australian government to build our new fleet of submarines – a deal heralded as ‘one of the world’s most lucrative defence contracts‘. How did this happen? In this special investigation Michelle Fahy discovers significant gaps in anti-bribery and corruption measures on this massive procurement project. The message communicated far and wide is that our standards are lax; grey areas are tolerated; and we’ll bend the rules and look the other way.
Murder, corruption, bombings – the company at centre of Australia’s submarine deal – Michael West
Is AI Group just a front for big business and foreign weapons manufacturers? Michael West reports on the rise of government and business propaganda outfits who are suddenly mute when the subject turns to the delicate matter of who funds them.
Nobody would begrudge Willox and other lobbyists the right to their opinions. Again, the questions are, why are taxpayers subsidising AI’s profitable businesses and why are these things never disclosed in their prolific media appearances?
The left of politics too has its think tanks which tend to be faithful to the political creeds of either the Greens or Labor. Again, unlike some of the Coalition’s flag-wavers such as AI, ASPI and the NSW Business Chamber they don’t tend to enjoy lavish Government contracts, which are clear conflicts of interest.
The final point of disclosure is that in recent years, AI has increasingly represented Defence contractors. This is a further area for public disclosure as Defence spending has gone through the roof under the present government.
via AI Unveiled: another propaganda service for Defence, big business and the Coalition – Michael West
Endorsements of Democrats blasted by Republicans, white supremacists and Trump, who now likes her music ‘25% less’
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