Amid the fallout over KPMG, newly compiled data from the Parliamentary Library reveals the Federal Labor Government currently has 297 active contracts awarded to KPMG, for a total value of $653 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Despite revelations of multiple scandals, including allegations of misusing confidential client information to get more audit work and mistreating a whistleblower, the Government continues to employ KPMG\u2019s service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
31 government contracts worth nearly $24 million were sealed with KPMG after the scandals became public on 24 March this year – with ASIC, Finance, Attorney General\u2019s Department, BoM and Defence among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Greens say the data shows KPMG\u2019s grip extends to nearly every corner of government and calls on Labor to review all current contracts and ban KPMG from any future contracts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Greens finance and public service spokesperson Senator Barbara Pocock:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis government is completely addicted to KPMG. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe volume of contracts shows just how aggressive KPMG\u2019s push into government has been, and how addicted Labor remains to the Big 4 consultancy firms, when it should instead be investing in a strong public service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “At a time when KPMG’s dirty laundry is being aired, as scandals are being publicly exposed, Australians are rightly asking why the Labor Government continues to give them contracts worth millions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “The Government must review all current contracts and ban KPMG from any future contracts until they’ve been properly investigated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cDespite all the lessons of the PwC consultancy scandal, Labor\u2019s response has been woefully inadequate. Consultants continue to play by their own rule book as the latest misdemeanours by KPMG show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cPolitical donations data shows that big consulting firms are still giving large donations to the government<\/u><\/a>. Three of the Big 4 consultancy firms, among them KPMG, donate to the government – this is just wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAustralians are fed up with the jobs-for-the-mates mentality that’s plagued successive governments. We see endless appointments of Big 4 consultants to senior government and advisory roles. Most recently – and since the whistleblower\u2019s allegations became public – the appointment of a current KPMG partner to lead the government advisory body the Board of Taxation. How does this pass any conflict of interest test? <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cLabor needs to put an end to the Big 4 donations to political parties and ban appointing Big 4 partners to senior government and advisory roles.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe government\u2019s refusal to clean up the unethical practices rife across the consultancy sector and ban dodgy firms is why the Greens introduced a bill to parliament<\/u><\/a>. We must close the legal loopholes that allow government contractors who behave unethically to get away with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt is time to implement the recommendations of earlier inquiries: subject these massive partnerships to the same rules of tax, transparency and whistleblowing as other large entities through corporations law, separate the functions of consultancy from audit and regulate them properly.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Amid the fallout over KPMG, newly compiled data from the Parliamentary Library reveals the Federal Labor Government currently has 297 active contracts awarded to KPMG, for a total value of $653 million. Despite revelations of multiple scandals, including allegations of misusing confidential client information to get more audit work and mistreating a whistleblower, the Government … Continue reading “Labor spending $653 million on KPMG”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39447,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39446\/revisions\/39447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}