If the Senate inquiry ends up targeting the practice of consulting instead of the structural rot,government agencies will lose more than the taxpayer gains.
PwC was not the only one in the firing line this week as a Senate inquiry revealed multimillion-dollar pay packets and a lack of disclosure on wrongdoing.
The Queensland state government paid consulting firm Deloitte hundreds of thousands of dollars to decide how it should set up its Olympics delivery authority.
A senate committee will consider recalling Deloitte for public questioning after leaked emails came to light involving a former partner from the consulting giant.
Controversial consultant David Milo used material he obtained as a partner at Deloitte to further his private interests after he left the firm.
The internationally embarrassing episode of Victoria ditching the 2026 Commonwealth Games is surely the point at which satire meets reality.
Award-winning Australian ad agency Thinkerbell has agreed to a “corporate conscious uncoupling” with the embattled professional services firm.
It’s hard to imagine others in the industry don’t have skeletons that they would rather keep buried.
Anthony Klein,who got swept up in the tax scandal engulfing the big four consulting firm,has resigned from the highly influential Board of Taxation.
It emerged during a Senate hearing that an internal investigation at Deloitte found 12 partners personally invested in the scheme run by former partner Amberjit Endow,but no internal policies were breached.
PwC,EY,Deloitte and KPMG admit to regularly sacking staff for misconduct. We should not accept that our policies are being crafted by those who show a pattern of bastardry.