Report from Government News - Probe finds government consultancy gravy train ‘tantamount to maladministration’

http://www.governmentnews.com.au/2014/06/probe-finds-government-consultancy-gravy-train-tantamount-maladministration/ The gravy train culture of providing lucrative consulting and external policy advisory services to government has been put to the blowtorch by Victoria’s Auditor General’s Office after a review found that the way many such engagements have been bought and managed “was tantamount to maladministration.” - item from Govt News 

Full government report at http://www.audit.vic.gov.au/publications/20140612-Managing-Consultants/20140612-Managing-Consultants.html