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Is the Govt's consultant spending worth the billion-dollar price tag?

By Danyl McLauchlan
New Zealand Listener·
17 mins to read

Our public services spent $1.25 billion on outsourced help last year. Are consultants worth their inflated price tags and industry jargon? By Danyl mclauchlan

When you drive into Wellington from the airport, you travel along Cobham Drive, a windblown stretch of road with a school, sports fields and industrial buildings on one side and the choppy grey harbour on the other. Halfway along it, you’ll drive over a new pedestrian crossing. It doesn’t look like much, but its construction was

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