'Private servants' the new norm in government staffing
Defence's "private" workforce may be unusually large, but outsourcing is the norm in Canberra.
Most Australian Public Service (APS) agencies now employ people via labour-hire firms, a practice that allows them to stay within the government's official staffing cap but still get their work done.
No-one knows how big this outsourced workforce is — not even the Finance Department, which exists to control how public money is spent.
However, an ABC analysis of about 120,000 federal government contracts — for services such as consulting, staffing and recruitment — suggests the Commonwealth's market for "private" labour has doubled in the past five years, and is now worth more than $5 billion a year.
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