The Minns government will define what constitutes “core public sector work” and require agencies to do it in-house wherever possible as part of its response to an explosion in...
Australian tech suppliers have warned large foreign competitors and big four consultants are exploiting low tax bills, unskilled government buyers and a system of “soft corruption” to land and...
Big four consulting firm EY will be paid another $7.7 million to provide IT data and analytics services to the tax office after it extended a lucrative contract that...
PwC has engaged the lobbying firm that helped an American quantum computing company secure a near $1 billion government investment this week, as a path back to government work...
The value of federal contracts awarded to global consulting giants plunged by more than $1.1 billion between the 2021 and 2023 calendar years, according to tender data collated by...
A handful of tech firms and the big four consultancies together donated almost $1.4 million to Australia’s major political parties last year, according to newly released figures which have reignited...
The Department of Defence reduced spending with the Big Four consulting giants by an average 40 per cent in the 2022/23 financial year, the first full 12 month reporting...
Anyone interested in public policy, including innovation and technology policy, must be interested in what we can call ‘the PwC scandal’. And there are three aspects to the scandal...
New South Wales government agencies broke procurement rules, failed to manage contracts and increasingly used only a handful of global giants while handing more than $1 billion to consulting...
Consultancies, tech companies, lobby groups and a former Industry minister’s business donated more than $1.5 million directly to Australia’s major political parties during the election year. The Big Four...