Resources from public services should be fully utilised for the goog of the public

Comments on Bill Shorten “Something better than a patchwork of services for the disabled”, 24/11/2009, http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/something-better-than-a-patchwork-of-services-for-the-disabled/story-e6frg6zo-1225802514927
Shorten says:
“IF you spend a minute talking to people with disability or their families and carers, you will soon realise that the millions of Australians affected by disability are not getting the best our society could offer.
Despite the efforts of this government, the strong commitment to improvement by state governments and the quiet work of many good-hearted and capable people, the system we have is a crisis-driven patchwork of state and federal services.
It is failing to deliver for people struggling to find the aids and equipment they need to have a chance of a job, or for ageing carers who have sainthood forced on them, whether they like it or not.
I believe we are at a tipping point when it comes to disability. It's a time when the old systems are struggling to cope and when we need to look at new ways of funding the growing costs associated with disability.
The announcement made by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd last night that the Productivity Commission will carry out an inquiry into funding and delivering long-term disability care and support is a fantastic chance to rethink how we approach disability as a society.”

To best use the capacity of existing public services for better public policies is a good way of governance, a much better way than spending millions and millions on consultancies.

Public services should be given the opportunities to do so and the government irrespective which side of political persuasion should trust and respect them, as opposed to using own trusted private consultancies.

There are some unease suspicions/speculations that politicians use consultancies to reward some own mates.

The Productivity Commission has been very forthright on a number of public policies and should be commended, though sometimes it tends to be too pure in dry economics and may lack of a practical sense.