When PwC International drafted in Kevin Burrowes to quarantine its Antipodean crisis to these shores, it didn’t expect him to work for free. Kevin’s life was sweet in Singapore. Warmer weather, chicken rice lunch at his hawker local. Why give that all up for this excruciating assignment?

We should have known the global operation was also paying him the whole time. Though this fact has been carefully kept from notice, until last week’s partners meeting, when it came up in the context of how the firm would answer even more parliamentary questions.