August 2024
‘Nerds gone wild’: Inside PwC’s last party before it all blew up
It is the days-long party now described as the last hurrah before the storm of the tax leaks. Within six months, the scandal would change the firm forever.
April 2024
Luke Sayers is done with the PwC scandal. It’s not done with him
Unethical behaviour “ignored”. “Implausible”. “Scarcely credible”. How can this assessment be any worse?
March 2024
PwC cover-up of tax leaks scandal ‘worsens the crime’: report
A Senate committee said PwC Australia had yet to demonstrate that it has reformed its operations “beyond superficial commitments to change”.
Senators slam PwC Australia’s ‘zombie management team’
Senators will call PwC International operatives before parliament to personally explain why the company is withholding a report into overseas aspects of the firm’s tax leaks scandal.
PwC and the ‘asbestos mulch’ still scoring government contracts
Despite being subjected to a full-scale government review, PwC recently won a fat audit contract with the NBN.
February 2024
Releasing international tax leak report unfair, dangerous: PwC
PwC Australia believes authorities have the evidence they require to conduct their own investigations into the actions of overseas partners involved in the tax leaks scandal.
Inside the big four’s private Zoom conclave
The Business Council of Australia convened the executives from the major professional services firm for some feedback on the past 12 months.
Offshore tax leaks went beyond the ‘dirty six’, Senate told
The Tax Practitioners Board investigation is now targeting international partners who shared leaked emails.
Police probe into PwC tax leaks goes international
The AFP investigation into the PwC tax leaks scandal has extended to the force making overseas inquiries, a Senate estimates hearing has been told.
PwC CEO wants power to strip ex-partners of $140k-a-year payments
PwC Australia CEO Kevin Burrowes is seeking the power to strip former partners of retirement payments if they are found to have done the wrong thing.
Tax office row over PwC leaks investigation flares in Senate
Senior ATO official Jeremy Hirschhorn says moves to prevent Tax Practitioners Board CEO Michael O’Neill getting a position “didn’t happen”. Mr O’Neill points to changes in his contract.
October 2023
Tax Office mixed up documents in PwC penalty case
ATO’s list of “false and misleading documents” in legal professional privilege claims included company logos.
August 2023
PwC scandal casts secrecy shadow over Commonwealth Games inquiry
Witnesses before an inquiry into Victoria cancelling the Commonwealth Games were quick to explain why they had to remain silent.
July 2023
PwC tax leaks ‘deeply disturbing’, says rival EY
EY Oceania boss David Larocca said he had spent five months talking to clients about why his firm is not like PwC, but was criticised at a Senate inquiry for failing disclose partner pay details.
March 2022
NDIS spending blows out by $40b, set to overtake defence
Spending on the National Disability Insurance Scheme has blown out by $40 billion over the forward estimates and will overtake spending on defence in 2024-25.
February 2022
Morrison fights to keep his balance
The Prime Minister is determined to wedge Labor without wedging himself on religious discrimination – but there are plenty of tripwires in this last sitting before the election.
Not all deaths with COVID are because of COVID: PM
The government was on the defensive over the aged care COVID-19 crisis when Parliament resumed.
‘Time for action’ to lift aged care wages: Baird
Former NSW premier Mike Baird’s comments come as data shows more than a third of total virus-related deaths in aged care have happened in the first month of 2022.
Third doses set to be required for full vaccination
The expert immunisation panel on vaccinations will hand its latest advice to the federal government within weeks.
January 2022
Scott Morrison is a collision between image and reality
The Prime Minister relies on a series of carefully crafted images. But when they get blurred, there is no core message to fall back upon.