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Industry dept pays consultants $15m for help with grants

The Industry department has paid consultants more than $15 million in the last 18 months across a number of contracts for assistance in delivering its grants programs, including with...

Canberra consultancy paid $3m to help assess Industry department grants

28 February 2022 | by Denham Sadler

A Canberra consultancy will be paid more than $3 million in the first half of this year to help the federal Industry department assess grants across a range of...

$50m Boosting Female Founders program faces serious questions

22 February 2022 | by Denham Sadler

A number of the largest grants from the federal government’s flagship $52 million program to support female founders will be reexamined after serious questions were raised about their eligibility...

McKinsey paid $1m to secretly tell govt how to increase supply of RATs

22 February 2022 | by Denham Sadler

Global consulting giant McKinsey will be paid nearly $1 million to provide a secret report to the federal government on how to increase the number of rapid antigen tests...

Modern Manufacturing program struggles to get money out the door

19 February 2022 | by Joseph Brookes

Just $85 million has been released from the federal government’s flagship $1.5 billion manufacturing program since it was announced in 2020. The biggest grants are currently being held up...

PwC’s $105,000 a fortnight for six staff to assess Industry grants

17 February 2022 | by Denham Sadler

Global consulting giant PwC was paid $105,000 in a fortnight to provide just six staff to the Industry department to assist in the assessment and issuing of government grants....

Govt spends 5x more on climate ads than net-zero modelling work

17 February 2022 | by Joseph Brookes

The Industry department is spending five times as much on advertising the government’s net-zero emissions strategy as it did on experts to model the impact of the widely disputed...

‘Outrageous and indefensible’: PwC assessing govt grants under $2m Industry contract

8 February 2022 | by Denham Sadler

Global consulting giant PwC is assessing government grant applications as part of a near-$2 million contract with the Industry department which the public sector union has branded “outrageous and...

McKinsey paid $10k a day for AdBlue analysis

21 January 2022 | by Joseph Brookes

The federal government is paying a consulting giant nearly $10,000 a day for supply and demand analysis of a critical diesel exhaust fluid but refuses to disclose exactly how...

Industry Growth Centres compete for $19m transition package

20 December 2021 | by Joseph Brookes

Australia’s Industry Growth Centres have been allocated an additional $19 million to transition to self-sustaining operation next year when the federal government pulls its support for the long-running initiative....

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Industry dept pays consultants $15m for help with grants

Canberra consultancy paid $3m to help assess Industry department grants

$50m Boosting Female Founders program faces serious questions

McKinsey paid $1m to secretly tell govt how to increase supply of RATs

Modern Manufacturing program struggles to get money out the door

PwC’s $105,000 a fortnight for six staff to assess Industry grants

Govt spends 5x more on climate ads than net-zero modelling work

‘Outrageous and indefensible’: PwC assessing govt grants under $2m Industry contract

McKinsey paid $10k a day for AdBlue analysis

Industry Growth Centres compete for $19m transition package

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