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Who needs PwC when consultancy work could be done more efficiently in-house?

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Who needs PwC when consultancy work could be done more efficiently in-house? Emmanuel Josserand, University of Technology Sydney The Senate inquiry into the PwC scandal has prompted the New South Wales Legislative Council to launch an inquiry into the NSW government’s use of management consulting services. While the PwC case highlights confidentiality...
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Political games and the exemplary punishment of Brittany Higgins

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I am message box. Click edit button to change this text. Even by the standards of Coalition-News Corp campaigns against Labor, the conspiracy theory about Brittany Higgins and her partner David Sharaz working with Labor to “weaponise” Higgins’ allegations of sexual assault in the office of then-defence minister Linda Reynolds...
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The Esther Foundation scandal: a stain that makes the Liberals unelectable

POLITICS
A $4 million grant might be a mere blip in the scheme of things, but that tiny sum, pledged by Scott Morrison to a religious rehab centre, tells us all we need to know about the degradation of government under his leadership. It also tells us why the Liberal Party...
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Three ADF failures built the culture that enabled war crimes

FUA AWARDS
Last week Justice Anthony Besanko handed down his decision in the defamation case brought by retired Corporal Ben Roberts-Smith against several Australian media organisations. The judgement has reopened the wounds of a shameful period of Australian military history. Beginning with the Brereton report of 2020, and through to the BRS judgement last...
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Ben Roberts-Smith Australian War Memorial display

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It was Ben Roberts-Smith’s own roll of the dice that has labelled Australia’s most decorated living soldier a murderer and a bully.Go to Ben Roberts-Smith Questionnaire at bottom of this pageMadonna King asserts that Roberts-Smith wanted to refute those claims, published in The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and...
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Tax office accused of ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ culture on PwC breach

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The agencies most involved in responding to professional services giant PwC’s misuse of government information are facing growing concerns about their handling of the breach, including the Australian Taxation Office’s insistence that it could not legally alert government. In senate budget estimates hearings this week, ATO commissioner Chris Jordan said...
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PwC Australia scandal: what actually happened and will it be fatal for the advisory firm?

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The Australian affiliate of PricewaterhouseCoopers is subject to a police investigation in a crisis that could have global implications PwC used its global network to profit from privileged information, drawing in other parts of one of the world’s biggest professional services firms. PricewaterhouseCoopers’ public slogan is to “build trust in society...
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Tax rorts, consultants, external Government advisors embed in Government departments. Golly gee what’s the problem

COAL
Nearly one week after the police were called, the government cannot directly say if it can stop doing business with a firm whose ex-CEO allegedly leaked Australian tax secrets. It’s eight years since Peter-John Collins, an executive at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), allegedly passed the confidential policy to colleagues advising clients on...
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Robo-debt findings delayed to allow NACC referrals

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Robo-debt royal commissioner Catherine Holmes requested a one-week extension to the inquiry’s reporting date so she can make referrals directly to the new national corruption watchdog, which does not begin operating until July 1. In the letter sent by Holmes to Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus asking to push back the June...
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Voice to Parliament: the brains behind the No campaigns

BIASED HISTORY
Senators Jacinta Nampijinpa Price and Lidia Thorpe (Images: AAP)According to a survey conducted for the Nine papers and reported yesterday, support for the Indigenous Voice to Parliament has dropped from 58% to 53% over the past month. It’s a boost for the two major No campaigns, which had consolidated...
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