Late on Tuesday night, when the nation’s chief financial officers were edging towards sleep, Labor’s Deborah O’Neill launched into a speech in the Senate that would make them sit bolt upright.
She used parliamentary privilege to air a laundry list of claims by a former KPMG executive, alleging the firm misused confidential client information and capitalised on conflicted networks of contacts to get work with other companies. Those name-dropped as the victims (or targets) of the alleged misconduct include Lendlease, Westpac, Dexus, Telstra and Macquarie.
