Barbara Pocock (SA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Labor went to the election promising to cut government consultancy spending. Since then, you have been boasting about savings on consulting contracts. Yet the government's very own data shows that in 2024-25 Labor in fact spent more than the last year of the Morrison government on consultants. Labor's excessive outsourcing of public sector work to the private sector isn't just wasting taxpayer money. As you said in an answer earlier today, it's eroding Australia's Public Service. Why have you broken your promise? (Time expired)