The Greens are calling on Labor to strip KPMG of $27.4 million in federal contracts amid mounting corporate governance failures
The government's consultation lands as KPMG Australia faces one of the most high-profile corporate whistleblower failures in recent memory, and a direct test of whether existing protections are fit for purpose.
Now, The Greens are demanding the federal Labor government immediately ban KPMG Australia from all government contracting work, as the accounting firm formally admitted its handling of a whistleblower's allegations "fell short" of expected standards, and as the full scale of its exposure to public sector work comes into focus.
According to the government's own AusTender procurement portal, the federal government holds dozens of active audit contracts with KPMG worth a combined $27.4 million across multiple departments.
The Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) holds the largest share, multiple active contracts valued at more than $6.428 million, followed by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) at $4.9 million, the Bureau of Meteorology at $2.1 million, the Department of Industry, Science and Resources at $1.748 million, and the Australian Taxation Office at $680,000.
Greens senator Barbara Pocock, the party's spokesperson for finance and the public sector, said the figures exposed a fundamental contradiction at the heart of the government's response to the scandal.
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