The country’s fleets of management consultants can rest easy. Their fears that Anthony Albanese’s second term might see Labor finally fulfil its promise to cut government outsourcing seem ill-founded.

Just look at the job recently advertised by Washington DC firm, Democracy International (DI). It’s for a “presentation and facilitation training expert” on a two-year contract to run, as the name suggests, training workshops for the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in Canberra.