Q: Will the consultant spend be higher under the Coalition than it is under Labor, given the plan to cut the public service?

Dutton sidesteps this one too:

What we’re going to do is spend taxpayers’ money wisely and that’s exactly the approach that the Howard Government had. We want to make sure that we respect people’s money. At the moment, people are working second and third jobs. You’ve heard the stories as we’ve moved around the country. People who are working full-time but taking an extra shift at the servo or the bottleo on a Saturday night.

The number of people who care about the ‘Howard’ approach to things is rapidly diminishing in Australia. Not sure if the Coalition have worked that out yet.