Current and previous governments affected by ‘plague’ of consultants

Sky News contributor Sam Crosby says the governments of Australia for the past 30 years have been affected by the “plague” of consultants. Mr Crosby joined Sky News host Paul Murray to discuss the upcoming 2024 budget. “Instead of saying, ‘hey, we’re going to go invest $100 million and build up the public service with some of the best and brightest minds’,” he said. “’No, no, no, we’re going to (invest) five or six or seven hundred times that number but do it incrementally’. “That is where I’d start.”