The Labor Government continues to hire morally-bankrupt KPMG to run ethics and leadership training for senior public servants despite the ongoing fallout over multiple scandals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
KPMG currently holds a $1.27 million contract<\/u><\/a> to provide training on ethics and leadership for 300 top public servants through the Australian Public Service Commission (APSC). The contract runs until Dec 2026 with the possibility of extension until Dec 2028. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Greens are demanding Labor cease the contract immediately and end all ethics and leadership training by KPMG. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Further, Labor must review all of its 297 active contracts with KPMG worth $653 million<\/u><\/a> to root out and terminate any similar contracts that touch on ethics or leadership, and ban KPMG from all government work until they have been investigated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Greens finance and public service spokesperson Senator Barbara Pocock:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cJust when we thought it couldn\u2019t get any worse, it does. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201c$1.3 million dollars in ethics and leadership training from morally-bankrupt KPMG – you can\u2019t make this stuff up!<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cKPMG could run a great class in unethical leadership, how to monetise confidential information, coverups and how to undermine whistleblowers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhat exactly has the Government paid for? This is a firm that misused confidential client information to secure more work, misled the parliament and seriously mistreated whistleblowers – among other things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOur most senior public sector leaders should not be undertaking any form of training \u2013 let alone on ethics and leadership – from a firm that has, by its own admission, breached the most basic ethical values and whose leadership has failed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Government is paying disgraced KPMG for their so-called \u2018ethics expertise\u2019 at the same time it is conducting an \u2018independent review<\/u><\/a>\u2019 into KPMG\u2019s governance, culture, ethics and integrity frameworks. Is this a joke?<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cLabor needs to wake up and listen to the outrage of ordinary Australians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe leadership and ethics of KPMG, exemplified by the recent scandals and evidenced by multiple resignations, is precisely the kind of leadership training that we do not need in the public sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cNot only did KPMG fail to learn from the awful lessons of the PwC debacle, it sought to present itself as the ethical alternative to secure lucrative contracts \u2013 including this one. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cLabor has rose-coloured glasses for KPMG even when they behave unethically. The Government is completely addicted to KPMG. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Government needs to review all contracts with KPMG and ban dodgy firms from government work. It needs to establish a consultant regulator and increase penalties for egregious behaviour and ethical failures.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Labor Government continues to hire morally-bankrupt KPMG to run ethics and leadership training for senior public servants despite the ongoing fallout over multiple scandals. KPMG currently holds a $1.27 million contract to provide training on ethics and leadership for 300 top public servants through the Australian Public Service Commission (APSC). The contract runs until Dec … Continue reading “Unethical KPMG hired for ethics training”<\/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-39688","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\/39688","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=39688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39689,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39688\/revisions\/39689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}