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Consulting (Australia)

June 2024

  • The Salesforce headquarters in San Francisco

    Private sector could face scrutiny after US software company reveals it wined and dined NDIA officials

    Parliamentary report finds agency officials also failed to declare gifts and outings paid for by IT firm Salesforce

May 2024

  • A composite image of office signage for consulting firms PwC, Ernst & Young, Deloitte and KPMG

    NSW inquiry urges government to ditch big four firms for ‘in-house’ consultancy by public service

    Banning bureaucrats from taking related consulting jobs for six months post-public service among inquiry’s 28 recommendations

March 2024

  • Richard Colbeck

    Liberal senator demands PwC executives ‘bare their necks’ at inquiry into consultancies

    Richard Colbeck says PwC International must clarify reports it took control of Australian firm after tax leaks scandal

February 2024

  • Jacinta Price, Alex Antic and Claire Chandler against receipt and Whitestone Strategic logo

    Secretive firm behind voice no campaign billed taxpayers almost $135,000 via Coalition MPs, documents show

    Exclusive: Whitestone Strategic, which has close ties to rightwing lobby group Advance, was paid to craft messaging on topics such as vaccine mandates and renewable energy
  • Gordon de Brouwer

    Public servants must do more to manage conflicts of interest, APS commissioner tells top bureaucrats

    Exclusive: letter to department heads does not cite specific incidents but comes after scandals involving government grants and consulting firms
    • Consultancy firms divided on controversial tax scheme as ATO threatens action

    • NSW government says EY’s non-disclosure on policy work ‘reflects poorly’ on system

    • Crisis-hit consultancies among firms throwing money at Australian political parties

January 2024

  • Janet Anderson

    One-third of outsourced Australian aged care home inspections rejected as substandard

  • Janet Anderson

    Consultants reported more than 520 conflicts of interest during audit of Australian aged care

November 2023

  • PwC, KPMG, Deloitte and EY logos

    Report critical of big four consultancies was censored by Australian government agency, academic claims

  • Labor senator Deborah O’Neill

    MPs condemn payment of millions to consultants over federally funded grant schemes

  • Centre for Public Integrity director Geoffrey Watson

    Firms that donate to political parties twice as likely to win government contracts, analysis finds

  • PwC

    Big four consultancy firm partners could be banned from being on board of regulator after PwC scandal

  • Consultancy firms paid $40m to review safety of aged care homes did not meet government standards

  • Powerful US and UK committees lobbied to pressure PwC to release report sought in Australia

October 2023

  • PwC logo

    PwC partner at centre of tax advice scandal banned by Asic for eight years

  • Bob Moritz

    PwC expected to face Senate inquiry over tax scandal as global CEO travels to Australia

September 2023

  • Boston Consulting Group logo

    Boston Consulting Group accused in Senate inquiry of securing contract extension through ‘cosy relations’ with officials

  • Treasurer Jim Chalmers speaks at the 49th ALP National Conference 2023 in August

    Stiffer penalties and increased ATO powers spearhead Labor’s tax overhaul

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