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The KPMG head office in Barangaroo, Sydney. The firm is chasing big audit contracts including at Macquarie.

From Seek to Wesfarmers, major audits up for grabs as firms circle

Some of the market’s most lucrative and long-held contracts are being fought over as professional services rivals try to nab millions of dollars in new work.

KPMG Australia CEO Andrew Yates at a hearing of the Senate inquiry.

KPMG CEO activates his sleeper agents

Andrew Yates’ audit division is on a hot streak. Former KPMG operatives keep showing up at the board table.

Bunnings boss wants new laws to allow facial recognition in stores

The hardware chain is no longer using facial recognition in its stores, but its managing director says the technology is essential to protect his staff.

The KPMG head office in Barangaroo, Sydney. The firm has seen the value of contracts with the government slump by two-thirds.

KPMG feels the burn of $200m in public service consulting cuts

The firm once counted $500 million in revenues from government agencies. While it and its peers have fallen out of favour, one rival has doubled its business.

AFR, Samantha Santos, who works at Deloitte in Adelaide. Story about Gen Z not wanting to become bosses in organisations. Pic Roy VanDerVegt   11th June 2025 

Why Gen Z is ‘unbossing’ and what CEOs can do about it

Gen Z employees are 1.7 times more likely than older generations to avoid leadership roles, not out of lack of interest but to protect their mental health, research shows.

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The Macquarie headquarters in Sydney. A role auditing the company is one of the most coveted for major professional services firms.

KPMG, EY frontrunners to snatch coveted Macquarie audit role from PwC

Working on the investment and banking giant’s books is one of the most complex jobs for an accounting firm, but one that promises a significant windfall.

EY Oceania managing partner David Larocca.

In busy season, EY prioritises golf putting and celebrity heads

The big four firm is trying to improve morale in the most infantilising way possible.

The PwC offices in Melbourne. The use of confidential government information by the firm has led to a broad overhaul of how the sector is governed.

Treasury prepares to crack down on audit firms, with or without ASIC

Officials are considering handing the corporate regulator the power to punish major accounting and consulting firms for the first time, among other options.

June

The partnerships of the big four are shrinking.

Consulting downturn bites as big four partner exits speed up

Australian partner numbers across Deloitte, EY, KPMG and PwC are down 500, to almost 2900 partners, since the 2023 peak.

Emma Hawthorne who is a new partner at EY. Photographed in Sydney on June 23, 2025. Photo: Dominic Lorrimer

The new EY partner who’s not afraid to make a ‘captain’s call’

The new partner handles service delivery issues, connects her clients to global EY services and makes the “captain’s call” on what is pitched to clients.

New Deloitte partner Gayathiri (Gee) Balachandra, in the Deloitte Melbourne office, says she is ready to take on the senior role.

The three phone calls Gee made after becoming a new Deloitte partner

Gayathiri Balachandra is one of only 35 new partners at Deloitte Australia, an intake that is the smallest at the firm in more than a decade.

May

Malcolm Bundey and Chris Ellison. Bundey will become MinRes’ new chairman on July 1.

Can MinRes’ cleanskin chairman tame the Chris Ellison show?

Malcolm Bundey will have one of the biggest governance mop-up jobs in years, with the heavily indebted miner facing investigation by the corporate regulator.

An independent pricing expert will oversee Armaguard’s contracts with banks and supermarkets.

Armaguard, banks pick Deloitte to create utility pricing for cash

The biggest users of cash want contracts with the Lindsay Fox company to be regulated like other essential services such as water and energy.

New MinRes chairman-elect Malcolm Bundey

New MinRes chairman shows delulu is infectious

Mal Bundey was the highly anticipated choice after an “extensive international search”.

Malcolm Bundey will become the new chair of Mineral Resources on July 1. Supplied by MinRes.

MinRes’ new chair to pocket $8.34m if he turns miner around

Mineral Resources board has lured Malcolm Bundey, a packaging sector veteran, to become its chair with a bumper package of share options.

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Trump may be rare good news for the big four consulting firms

Uncertainty stemming from the US president’s unpredictable administration is pushing clients to re-engage with firms for advice on operations and strategy.

Vanquished Coalition leader Peter Dutton.

‘I just can’t vote for Dutton’: How Peter Dutton lost heartland seats

Labor went into the federal election with just five of the 30 seats in Queensland with little genuine hopes of gains. But Anthony Albanese has reclaimed prized inner-Brisbane electorates and the Coalition’s heartland outer suburbs.

Cardinals attend a mass on the fifth of nine days of official mourning for the late Pope Francis.

Nazi gold, organised crime: New pope faces unholy financial crisis

The late pontiff sought to battle corruption, but his successor faces a steep challenge in balancing the books.

April

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Inflation steady; $100b fund’s Trump plan; Ex-model running for One Nation

Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.

Tom Venning, the Liberal candidate for the seat of Grey in South Australia, suffers a flat tyre on the campaign trail.

Meet the ex-Deloitte consultant who has driven 85,000km to win a seat

Tom Venning has a strong chance to be the new MP for a sprawling SA seat after exiting the corporate world with a hope to bring a back-to-basics economic approach.

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