Colbeck’s committee’s unfinished business

Senator Richard Colbeck has principal carriage of a report for the committee that has spent a year looking at procurement and consulting services that is due to be tabled in federal parliament next month, and it has two more public hearings scheduled this month to tie up loose ends with key players before it contemplates recommendations.

Colbeck and his colleagues on the Finance and Public Administration committee have concerns that have materialised since the senate triggered the inquiry process last year at the prompt of Australian Greens’ senator Barbara Pocock following public sector outrage after it