Consultants behaving badly, politicians behaving cavalierly – with our money. Australia’s weather website just cost you $96.5 million. Not a satellite, not a supercomputer … a website. In this episode Josh digs into how a four million dollar BoM “refresh” blew out 24 times over, and how much of that money flowed straight to private consultants like Accenture and Deloitte.
We look at Deloitte’s AI written report, PwC’s tax leak and Robodebt work, and new Greens data showing federal consulting spend is now just under a billion dollars a year, even as work shifts from the Big Four to a long tail of firms.
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Michael West established Michael West Media in 2016 to focus on journalism of high public interest, particularly the rising power of corporations over democracy. West was formerly a journalist and editor with Fairfax newspapers, a columnist for News Corp and even, once, a stockbroker.
