99 Consulting

Jon Eastgate, Judith Hunter and Helen Wallace started 99 Consulting in 2006 . The three of them worked as a team until 2015, delivering a wide range of quality projects for local governments and not-for-profit organisations. Unfortunately, the combination of State Government budget cuts and the end of the mining boom meant that there were too many consultants in Queensland competing for not enough work and it became much harder for the three of them to make a living. Eventually Helen and Judith got great jobs, with Caxton Legal Service and YFS Logan respectively. Judith returned to the business in mid-2024 after a long, productive stint as Strategic Development Director at YFS Logan. Jon has been a partner in 99 Consulting since 2006. He has been a fixture in the Queensland human services sector for four decades, with most of that spent working in housing and homelessness. His early career was spent in hands-on roles in child protection and homelessness service provision. While working