Revealed: who won from the great corona cash splash?

We’re all in this together? Pigs arse. A good crisis never goes to waste — and the big global consulting firms appear to have been among the biggest beneficiaries of the coronavirus pandemic.

The good folk at InnovationAus — who do excellent work identifying the drains our taxes disappear down — report:

Multinational management consulting firms have enjoyed an extraordinarily good year in Canberra. Federal government spending on advice and services from the global outfits soared by hundreds of millions of dollars during the 2020 pandemic compared to virus-free 2019.

Spending with the global consulting houses jumped by 23 per cent in 2020, a sharp increase of more than $225 million for the calendar year, from $991…