One of the great features of the IT industry is how incoming ministers and Managing Directors stand up and announce how they can save some improbable amount of money on their IT spending.
It always ends in disaster and usually ends up enriching one of the big multinational consulting outfits.
The finance minister, Lindsay Tanner, has fallen into the trap his Liberal Party predecessors fell into by announcing a program to find “double dipping” and waste in IT services.
The most delicious part of his announcement is that he will probably use external consultants to find this waste.