Statist idiots: Departing OZschwitz public service digital chief says level of contracting in APS is 'eye watering'
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Subject: Statist idiots: Departing OZschwitz public service digital chief says level of contracting in APS is 'eye watering' Tue Dec 06, 2016 7:42 pm
Commonwealth government spending on IT contractors is "eye watering", according to the public service's outgoing tech guru.
But the public service's "remarkable" over-dependence on outsourcing creates "perverse outcomes" and a culture of "blame aversion", departing Digital Transformation Office chief Paul Shetler says.
Mr Shetler has written that the history of the federal government digital failure underlines the need for the public service to train its own workers and end its reliance on expensive and wasteful private sector outsourcing.