Carr Caught On Consultancy Cost

Eschewing profligacy is akin to battling some resilient cancers. It can be subdued into remission but the war is never won. So it was with Labor's 1994 election promise to cap spending on consultants at $50 million a year. After two years, the Carr Government declared mission accomplished. Figures later this year are expected to show the Carr Government is so generous with consultants that average annual expenditure over its seven years has exceeded $100 million. The vigour of the pursuit, so amplified in O