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Poppy Johnston

New government unit to save millions on consultants

Andrew Leigh says the unit will apply scientific rigour to assessing how policies work in practice. (Lukas Coch/AAP PHOTOS) (AAP)

At a time when the relationship between the Australian public service and consultancy firms is under fierce scrutiny, a new unit is looking at keeping more work in-house.

What has been dubbed the Commonwealth Evaluation Unit will essentially be responsible for checking public programs are working as they are meant to.

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