On a separate matter even the Feds have
realised their consultancy
spend is out of hand
When Sydney's second airport was being mooted as being somewhere other than
Badgerys Creek there was the genuinely deranged proposal of putting it in Holsworthy Reserve, right next to the Woronora Reservoir.
I subsequently authored a report that was tabled in the Federal Parliament no less (and it is in Hansard) by my local MP at the time. Not bad for a rookie
It was an afternoon's work.
Much of what I had highlighted was later repeated
by a consultancy company Russ PPK. They charged $2 million for that!