Corruption threat from surge in consultants, hollowing out of public service Outsourcing of policy advice doesn't merely undermine the Australian Public Service, a top public policy expert argues, it increases the risk of corruption. Glyn Davis (Image: AAP/Alan Porritt) One of Australia's foremost public policy experts has strongly criticised the dramatic expansion in outsourcing of policy advice by the federal government, warning that it risks corruption and has created a vicious circle of declining public sector expertise. Glyn Davis, a former senior public servant at the state and federal levels, former University of Melbourne Vice-Chancellor and a prominent public policy academic, on Friday delivered the annual Jim Carlton Integrity Lecture at the University of Melbourne.