This week we saw a very uncomfortable ACTTAB and government department chucking blame at each other in public at the Vitab inquiry.
However, there is a more deep-seated conflict here _ a clash of culture between private- and public-sector ways of doing things.
ACTTAB provides an example in the much wider debate about what sorts of bodies are best private and what public.
Private companies and firms want to make a buck. To do that they have to get on with it. But to get on with it they have to cut corners. When you cut corners, you take risks. When you take risks you can lose a lot of money, or you can make a lot of money, or fall somewhere between.
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