Consulting firms doing the work of government?
"The previous Coalition government spent $20.8bn outsourcing more than a third of #PublicService operations, an audit has found."
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/may/05/morrison-government-spent-208bn-on-consultants-and-outsourcing-public-service-in-final-year-audit-finds
"Governments are increasingly reliant on consulting firms. Critics says it's often to their detriment. Economics professor Mariana Mazzucato is alarmed at how much governments rely on consulting firms."
"But what we've witnessed in the last 50 years is the #dismantling of the capacity within our government organisations to even be a good partner to these other organisations."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-03-16/australia-reliance-consulting-firms-high-cost-problem-government/102091810
#Consulting #Government #ShadowWorkforce #Outsourcing #Governance #ConflictOfInterest #PublicSector #ConsultingFirms
#publicservice #dismantling #consulting #government #shadowworkforce #outsourcing #governance #conflictofinterest #publicsector #consultingfirms
Are consulting firms doing the work of government?
"One [issue] is that because we're not investing within our #health systems or #education systems or #transport systems, we're getting a weaker and weaker #state, which then requires others (consulting firms) to help it do its work...When you no longer invest within your capacity, you actually end up literally requiring them to do some of the most central functions of government."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-03-16/australia-reliance-consulting-firms-high-cost-problem-government/102091810
#Transparency #Dependency #Dismantling #Government organisations #Consulting industry
#health #education #transport #state #transparency #dependency #dismantling #government #consulting
2/2 The second, by Nesrine Maslik, gives a very insightful and powerful account of the #Dismantling of the #WelfareState and #PublicServices as well as #HostileEnvironment policies - and the realisation that if she arrived now, she probably would not make it the way she did. Both pointing out just how much real, visionary change we need, and how sadly that is not really coming from Keir Starmer and #Labour
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/27/labour-britain-change-hope
#dismantling #welfarestate #publicservices #hostileenvironment #labour
@flexghost The #dismantling of #education is sign of #authoritarianism. What are they scared of? If their philosophy is so great, then let it duke it out with a highly educated public that can freely learn what they want to. The fact that the #GOP needs to limit what others can learn, and use #subterfuge and #lies to get into power says the people don't like it, and don't what anything to do with it. #censorship
#censorship #lies #subterfuge #GOP #authoritarianism #Education #dismantling
#Dismantling of an #encrypted #network sends #shockwaves through organised #crime groups across #Europe
https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/dismantling-of-encrypted-network-sends-shockwaves-through-organised-crime-groups-across-europe
#dismantling #encrypted #network #shockwaves #crime #europe
This is the systemic #dismantling of America's #energy infrastructure #fuelsupply #collapse
https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-06-09-texas-oil-refinery-shutdown-record-gas-prices.html
#collapse #FuelSupply #energy #dismantling
dismantling the cubes...
#dismantling #cubes #checkerboard #opticalillusion #animatedgif
#dismantling #cubes #checkerboard #animatedgif