This article originally published by Doug Dingwall and Tom McIlroy in The Canberra Times on August 3rd 2017. Click here to read the original. Federal government spending with Australia's biggest consultancy firms has more than doubled since the Coalition was elected, costing taxpayers nearly $1 billion since 2013, despite pledges to drive down public service outsourcing. Amid the axing of more than 15,000 public service jobs, outsourcing contracts with the big four consulting firms - Ernst and Young, KPMG, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Deloitte - more than doubled in value from $196.4 million in 2013-14 to $420.3 million in 2015-16. The total number of annual contracts grew by more than 300 in...
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