Joe Hockey (North Sydney, Liberal Party, Shadow Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Treasurer. I refer the Treasurer to the government’s pre-election commitment to cut spending on consultants in the Commonwealth Public Service by $395 million. Given that the government has spent over $500 million in just 13 months, does this mean that the Treasurer has finally sounded the death knell on fiscal conservatism? Treasurer, at $1¼ million dollars a day, when will the government declare a war on its own consultants?

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