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"Free public transport in Victoria through April as fuel prices continue to climb" (www.abc.net.au)

submitted 15 hours ago by MisterFrog@aussie.zone to c/melbourne@aussie.zone

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Perhaps the one silver lining to US imperialism, is that more people will want better public transport

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[–] Fleur_@aussie.zone 10 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Nice, we should do this all the time

[–] pupbiru@aussie.zone 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

cheaper than fixing myki

[–] MisterFrog@aussie.zone 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Probably not a controversial opinion, but we could save so much money if we stopped hiring consultants for building tech things.

BoM website makeover cost almost $100M.

"Small government" is also the scam the brought us the initial myki rollout fiasco.

This all being said, I agree, public transport should be free and expanded. We can't keep on with the clearly terrible urban planning of urban sprawl and cars

[–] pupbiru@aussie.zone 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

i mean, we should stop hiring business consultants to write software lol

there are small/local consultancies that actually do a great job: just like hiring a team of contractors

large multinationals with a focus on accounting and business with “oh also we do salesforce” is the real problem… they optimise their costs rather than focusing on quality

[–] MisterFrog@aussie.zone 1 points 1 hour ago

Or we could benefit by having a permanent team who will be cheaper in the long-run, because of familiarity with the systems and projects they build and maintain.

Hiring outside consultants of any kind for a permanent government requirement is pure insanity (or in reality, grift) if you ask me.

I'm sure there are consultancies who do a great job. The actual employees are usually not the problem.

But let's just give those same employees a permanent job and cut out the middle men who are offering no value whatsoever.