14 hours ago
- Business
- AU Financial Review
Victorian public service paying for advice it ignores, report finds
Victorian government departments, which spent $130 million on external consultants and contractors last year, sometimes hired them with no valid reason, failed to track their work or ignored the product or service they supplied.
State auditor-general Andrew Greaves concluded in a report released on Thursday that public servants were too often unable to demonstrate that their use of third-party contractors delivered value for money for taxpayers.
