" Opposition leader Anthony Albanese called the failure “an incompetence attack” rather than a cyberattack and said this was also a consequence of a government “that’s been determined to privatise and contract out assets.”

“The truth is that the big four accounting firms have got a lot of Government taxpayers’ money over recent years and at the same time basic government functions have been stripped from their workforce. And Centrelink clearly needs more people,” Mr Albanese said. "

What gets me, is the the libs, " say look at us we've cut civil service jobs ", the reality of course, is they've privatised them.

Revealed: Deloitte, EY, KPMG and PwC earned $1.7b from government work

https://www.copyright link/companies/professional-services/revealed-deloitte-ey-kpmg-and-pwc-earned-17b-from-government-work-20180326-h0xymn
Had centrelink and the other govt departments been staffed appropriately, a better service than is been dished out now, would IMO, be available to all those affected.


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