Finance accused of fudging efficiency data
'Complete nonsense': The Department of Finance has been accused of fudging data to argue that an ongoing crackdown on departmental spending was reducing the overall cost of running the federal bureaucracy.
Edmund is an award-winning journalist who covers accounting and consulting firms and is also the masthead's Data Editor. He works from our Sydney newsroom.
'Complete nonsense': The Department of Finance has been accused of fudging data to argue that an ongoing crackdown on departmental spending was reducing the overall cost of running the federal bureaucracy.
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