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Exclusive: A NSW parliamentary inquiry will examine how an operating model based on consultants left the public service ‘infantilised’
About $1bn spent on consultants over five years by the New South Wales government will be examined when a parliamentary inquiry begins on Thursday, with the public sector union set to lash the Coalition, which it claims left workers “demoralised and decimated”.
A submission from the Public Service Association of NSW (PSA), seen by Guardian Australia and to be handed to the inquiry, also accused the government of pursuing an operating model that devalued public servants and cost the public with “slavish obsession”.
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