7 August

You really should watch this. The outrageous story (that some of us have lived firsthand) of the privatisation of the pubic service, through outsourcing to the big 4 consulting firms. More than 15,000 public servants have been sacked since Tony Abbott was PM, and these organisations have rushed into the breach, hired by the politicians who did the sacking. They love consultants because unlike the public service, politicians can just tell them what they want them to say. You might think this is a dry topic. But this impacts every area of your life. For example Australia’s Covid strategy didn’t come from the Department of Health. It was outsourced to a private consultancy. I don’t think you’d need to be a genius to figure out why.