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Nick Hossack

Why the attacks on PwC are ideological and overblown

A PwC partner made a mistake and was rightly sanctioned for it. But a private sector that behaved like the public sector would be a loss all round.

The publicity given to the PwC disclosure “scandal” has morphed from what was a reasonable and overdue public airing of a PwC partner’s breach of confidentiality to that of an emotional, irrational outpouring of fury.

No one disputes that the PwC partner should not have broken confidentiality, and that PwC should have relied less on legal client privilege to inhibit inquiries.

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Nick Hossack is a public policy consultant, former policy director at the Australian Bankers Association, and former adviser to John Howard.

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