The contract comes amid a growing debate about the public service’s reliance on external advice for tasks that would once have been performed in-house.
One of the big four consultancy firms will receive almost $8.5 million in taxpayers’ money over the next year to help design a new agency to monitor safety issues associated with Australia’s acquisition of nuclear-powered submarines under the AUKUS pact.
The regulator, which will sit within the Defence Department, will also monitor infrastructure and facilities associated with the AUKUS pact such as the yet-to-be determined east coast submarine base., including about nuclear safety and the risks of nuclear proliferation, at the party’s national conference on the weekend.
“This contract needs to be torn up and then this core duty of government, designing a nuclear oversight agency, needs to be done by government, not by a hired gun from the big four,” Shoebridge said. “For any engagement, appropriate security and conflict-of-interest arrangements are put in place and regularly reviewed throughout the tender evaluation and negotiation process.”During a Senate appearance in July EY Oceania chief executive David Larocca distanced the firm from rival PwC, which is under fire for leaking confidential government information to its clients.
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