Government spend on management consultants balloons as giant accountancy firms cash in

... which is an increase on around $380 million spent in 2013, when the size of the bureaucracy peaked at 167,000 jobs under Labor. The big four accounting firms — KPMG, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Ernst & Young, Deloitte — have won close to half-a-billion dollars in consultancy work over four years.

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