This Month
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Collective action crucial to drive systems-wide change to cut emissions
The 1.5 degree threshold, laid out in the Paris Agreement signed in 2016 was earmarked as “the key tipping point” for climate change globally.
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Consultants banned from public service core work
A major revamp of public service outsourcing means consultants will lose out on lucrative contracts as federal agencies take their core work in house.
- Tom Burton
Workplaces backing Yes vote vow to double down
Employers that backed the Voice to parliament expect staff to get more involved in work to promote Indigenous advancement regardless of the referendum’s outcome.
- Euan Black
September
One in five EY, PwC partners earns more than $1.3m
The top-earning 20 per cent of partners at big four consulting firms EY and PwC took home than $1.3 million each year, well above the top managing directors at Accenture who earned from $875,000.
- Edmund Tadros
- Opinion
- PwC tax scandal
No big consultancy left untouched by the taint around PwC
Despite the continually emerging evidence of misconduct, and the thorough airing of these matters through parliamentary committees, it seems the sector is still grappling with exactly what this new era of scrutiny means.
- Deborah O'Neill
Senate publishes EY and Deloitte ‘confidential’ partner pay levels
EY and Deloitte handed over the partner pay on the condition it was ‘confidential’. The Senate inquiry didn’t see it that way.
- Mark Di Stefano
The five things keeping consultants awake at night
Shrinking budgets, job losses, the end of the COVID-19 pandemic and artificial intelligence are all shaking up the industry.
- Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, Silin Chen and Anjli Raval
One in eight Accenture MDs earns more than $1m
The average Accenture managing director’s pay worked out at roughly $630,000 in FY23 including base pay, bonus payment and equity vested in the financial year.
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- Edmund Tadros
- Exclusive
- Big four consultants
Big four consultants investigated by Defence Department
Canberra heavyweight KPMG is the subject of two Defence investigations, and Deloitte, EY and Accenture are subject to one probe each.
- Ronald Mizen
Electronic statutory declarations spell end of the passport queue
New laws mean people will no longer need a physical witness or justice of the peace to verify their statutory declaration.
- Tom Burton
Accenture opens the door on big four’s secret client ‘mapping’
The big four consulting firms have denied systematically tracking their relationships with public sector clients, but Accenture says it’s a common practice.
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- Edmund Tadros
August
The firms with the most misconduct complaints, and the least
Staff are most willing to lodge complaints at KPMG and Deloitte and least likely at Accenture, figures disclosed by the five big consulting firms show.
- Edmund Tadros
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Delivering innovative digital workforce solutions at speed and scale
Australian defence’s missions are multi-domain with sea, land, air, and now cyber and space, multi-national, multi-agency operations.
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In about-face, McKinsey, BCG to appear before consulting inquiry
The two boutique consulting firms had earlier declined to appear before the committee and failed to answer most of the questions posed about their operations.
- Edmund Tadros
News Corp kills major Accenture-advised advertising platform project
News Corp has sacked dozens of people over the past few months after an Accenture ad project which cost millions became a “less attractive concept”.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
- Opinion
- Workplace
Work-from-homers may come to regret their couch time
Capital-city employees who avoid the office may eventually find themselves replaced by cheaper workers in Manila.
- Aaron Patrick
- Exclusive
- Government Services Summit
ATO captures billions of dollars from tax cheats with AI
The ATO is using artificial intelligence to trawl through its large data sets and deliver new insights that are impossible for humans to identify.
- Tess Bennett
July
- Opinion
- Public service
Why we should stop demonising consultants
Canberra’s jihad against consultants has turned ideological, with a McCarthy-like vendetta against outside expertise.
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- Tom Burton
EY runs ‘a very different tax practice’ to PwC
EY has told a Senate inquiry that the firm has “very different” model to its rival and does not have “partners roaming the market with solutions looking for problems”.
- Edmund Tadros
- Exclusive
- Social media
Deloitte, EY, McKinsey and BCG consultants banned from using TikTok
The major consulting firms have followed the Australian government in banning TikTok on work-issued devices, while Accenture assesses whether to follow suit.
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- Max Mason
