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Same here in Australia. Over the last decade we’ve systematically reduced the number of civil servants and increased the number of consultants in government by many times. The result is we’ve ended up paying through the nose for worse government.

The big consulting firms are leeches on the public purse. They should be used as little as possible.

You guys are way too optimistic, they’re just going to pass these contracts to trump, musk and Peter theil buddies. Charge more money and also introduce some nepharious bullshit like AI data scraping

A good portion of Federal Government is just a bunch of leeches whose KPI is literally how much money they waste. SO works there, in a team of great dedicated people, and they are all good and professional, but the whole department can be wiped out and nobody will notice.