Tag: contractors

Contractors surge at Defence amid workforce pressures

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
The number of external contractors working at the Department of Defence has grown by 55 per cent since the start of the pandemic, as the ongoing skills shortage takes...

Defence, ServicesAus warned over contractor oversight issues

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Some of the Public Service’s biggest users of outside contractors are not ensuring the outsourced workers are properly qualified, inducted or discharged, the national audit office has found, putting...

Contractors have ‘hollowed out’ APS tech skills

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
A year-long review of the Australian Public Service has slammed the growing externalisation of ICT projects and skills, warning contractors are now being relied on for “core, ongoing work”...

Dept of Health’s Covid contracts ‘out of control’

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The federal government’s reliance on contractors and consultants for key COVID-19 response work is “out of control” and is not building capability for the next major crisis, the public...