Whose going to tell our iching ears leaders that using consultancies is often an increasingly expensive road to non decisionmaking . How much duck shoving is being done in the name of good governance all over Australia from this abdication by ministers of ministry responsibility Got to stop . False idealism is driving it http://users.gsat.net.au/tuf
see Rod Mackenzies letter Geelong A 22 October

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