13 February 2008

Razor gang to harrang Canberra

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Much akin to fat Albert at a buffet, consultants to Government tend to absorb a large proportion of allocated revenue each year. Lindsay Tanner is releasing the audit crews and other winged monkeys at his disposal to overhaul $30 billion worth of new contracts signed by the Government each year, according to the Aussie.

The review aims to strip billions of dollars from the taxpayers’ bill by leveraging government purchasing power, eliminating duplication and stopping agencies competing with each other for resources. Research is apprarently already under way for the project, which will parallel the two-stage razor gang process already announced; immediate cuts for this year’s budget, followed by a second-stage review later this year.

Time to retire consultants, cash in those novated leases and move to Barlings Beach.

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oh, and i agree entirely on the non-sensicalness, or at least inappropriateness, of the thread title…

are suggested stories moderated before being posted live? can we have at least some bit of subbing, or checking, before they go up then??

your beater wasn’t trained well enough in the ancient and dark welsh art of ekky thump, and probbab’ly dinnay even hae’ w’i him a black puddin’, aye?

la mente torbida12:07 pm 14 Feb 08

mmmmmmmmmmm haggis!

I went hunting haggis in the wilds of Scotland many many years ago at a place called Loch Jaw.
That’s about mid-way between Ben Nevis and Ben Afleck, isn’t it?

el ......VNBerlinaV811:01 pm 13 Feb 08

He plans to say ‘sorry’ a lot BigDave…

Harrang on a minute everyone…what about the sentral ideah off the hedlyne. Supposedly by combining all Gov’t contracting there are $ savings. E.g. one contract for all travel.

How is the APS going to set up these mega-contracts without some contracted-support themselves? More consultants to help design the tenders and evaluate companies.

The more I read about this, the less I like Rudd. I mean, employing gangs with razors to go around cutting stuff up.
If it were anyone else, they’d be arrested.
Once again, it’s one rule for them…etc. etc…

Typsy McStaggers4:56 pm 13 Feb 08

I choose ‘buttonhole’ cos its so nearly a little bit rude. Second choice is ‘miff’ cos she’s hot, third is ‘salute’ cos it reminds me of beer.

neanderthalsis4:53 pm 13 Feb 08

The Hagii in the link posted by s4nta look suspiciously like a morbidly obese ornithoryncus.

Queanbeyan?

“Comment by Skidbladnir – So where is this argument going?”

might I be so bold as to suggest:

nowhere – China, Darkest Africa, God knows where, Greenland, North Pole, Outer Mongolia, Pago Pago, Pillars of Hercules, Siberia, South Pole, Thule, Tierra del Fuego, Timbuktu, Ultima Thule, Yukon, antipodes, frontier, godforsaken place, in no place, jumping-off place, nowhither, outback, outer space, outpost, outskirts, pole, the Great Divide, the South Seas, the boondocks, the moon, the sticks, the tullies

Where I work we can’t physically hire enough people to keep up with govt demand. And we hire by the hundred.

Your headline uses the not-a-word, Harrang.
(See top of thread)

I gave a roughly similar definition for harangue from memory as to that which you have now linked.
(My dictionary needs no upgrading)

I suggested the Razor Gang would do more than talk to us, and that the headline for this RiotACT posting was misrepresenting the article you originally linked to.
(If the razor gang was only going to harangue us, they would be a Ruddling Emotive Lecture Squad)

So where is this argument going?

Skids;
definition
Time to upgrade the dictionary

I pick haggis. Ok it’s not on the list, but I’d love to see somebody waving one about.

Bring on the Department of Administration.

Choose one these then shakespeare;
abrade, agitate, badger, be at*, bedevil, beleaguer, bore, bother, break, bug, burn up, chafe, displease, distress, disturb, egg on*, exasperate, fire up*, gall, get, gnaw, harass, harry, heat up*, henpeck, hit on, hot up, irk, madden, make waves*, miff, nag, needle, nettle, noodge, peeve, perturb, pester, plague, provoke, ride, rile, ruffle, tease, tick off*, trouble, turn off*, vex, work on*, worry gratify, make happy, please, soothe, address, annoy, bother, brace*, buttonhole*, call, challenge, confront, cross, dare, entice, face, face off, flag, greet, hail, proposition, salute, welcome, agonize, annoy, beset, bother, burden, crucify, distress, grieve, harass, harrow, harry, irk, lacerate, martyr, oppress, pain, pester, plague, press, rack, smite, strike, torment, torture, trouble, try, vex, worry, wound, advise, argue, bargain, blitz*, brainstorm*, breeze*, chew, chin, collogue, confab*, confabulate, consult, converse, deal, debate, deliberate, discourse, flap*, gab*, gobble, groupthink*, huddle, jaw, negotiate, parley, powwow*, rap, speak, talk, treat

“Harrang” is not an actual verb, or even a word.
Google only reveals it as a surname.
http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=Harrang

If you mean harangue, which is to deliver a lofty, serious, and emotive speech, I suggest the Razor Gang will do more than talk to us, rendering the headline wildly inaccurate.

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