The hollowing out of the public service was a “perverse consequence” of the former Coalition government’s fixation on cutting its size, says the former top public servant under two Liberal PMs.
But Accenture Australia managing director Rob Coffey, who worked in Crown Consulting while in the UK, said that the Australian in-house model was being created as part of a suite changes to build the “capability of the public service to deliver”.“In the UK, we didn’t have that strategic point of view,” he said in a separate interview withAnother difference is the Albanese government “is actively talking about wanting to increase the size of the public service or at least is open to that.
Dr Bacon last week told a public service commission that the government has already identified more than 250 areas of specialist knowledge across different portfolios that could be shared with others in the public service. Mr Coffey, who now consults for Accenture out of Canberra, said the firm was “utterly committed to having a strong and capable public service”.“We are committed in every project we do that where it’s appropriate, where we have different skills, we should be doing what we can to transfer and build that capability,” he said.McKinsey Australia and New Zealand managing partner Wesley Walden also welcomed the ongoing reforms to the way the government buys consulting services.
“I think there’s been … you know, over many years, very much an overuse of consultants to provide capacity … but I think consultants play an incredibly important role, on three dimensions in particular,” Mr Walden said during last week’s Workforce Summit. “One, providing global expertise and independent challenge; secondly, to accelerate change, and really support that; and then thirdly, to build really deep capabilities.”Connect with
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