Dileepa Fonseka05:00, Jun 05 2021
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Judith Collins consoles Sharareh Khojasteh and her son Daniel Ahmadvand (right) during a protest outside Parliament for split migrant families.
OPINION: Accountants are good people to blame when you run out of anybody else to. Still, I find it odd to be blaming this accountant I met at a recent migrant protest for the low-productivity situation we find ourselves in. The word ‘productivity’ has been rearing its head recently, but not the way we once knew it. During the 1980s and 1990s it was used to justify major economic reforms and lift output, but these days it is more commonly heard in relation to migrants who are being accused by various ministers and economists of spreading economic growth too thinly through the mere act of moving here.
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Skycity chairman Rob Campbell says consulting firms “tend to define and analyse problems in a manner which can only miraculously be resolved by themselves”.
Veteran company director Rob Campbell says “they’ll be preparing to feast” when I ask him about this new wave of restructures the Government have got coming up. When he says ‘they’ he doesn’t mean the Government, but firms like EY, Deloitte, KPMG and PWC whose names pop up on reports and consulting contracts whenever the word ”restructure” is floated by a government minister. “When you see a ‘working party’ or ‘commission’ there will surely be management consultants or professional service firms busily writing their next contract and issuing invoices,” Campbell says.