The same failure, many voices
A handful of failure modes recur across almost every one of the 50 bodies — the connective tissue of Australian oversight. Each is shown here in the actual words of several different watchdogs, across jurisdictions and mandates, pulled live from the corpus. Select a pattern.
Temporary Workforce: Poorly governed
Recurs across 48 of the 50 oversight bodies · Government Control Weaknesses
the APS: - makes decisions on the use of external capability by reference to a whole-of-service workforce strategy that identifies the core capabilities the APS should invest in building in-house – with external capability used to perform non-core or variable work activity
Independent Review of the APS Panel (David Thodey AO, Chair) (FED)
The decision to increase resources using contingent labour was not formally documented
NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) (NSW)
the use of labour hire within agencies was largely driven through the procurement process.
Tasmanian Audit Office (TAS)
There is no single comprehensive data source on all consulting expenditure
Audit Office of New South Wales (NSW)
Connective tissue: one failure mode, 48 bodies, every jurisdiction — the shared grammar of Australian public failure.