Matthias Cormann has confirmed the government's $3 billion spend on the Big Four consultants, but he is almost a billion dollars short. Michael West investigates.
A cool $8 million for a bunch of chairs? A lazy $3 billion of taxpayers' finest being forked out to some accountants? For advice? What, exactly, are “strategic planning consultation services”?
High in their splendid eyries above Clarence and Collins streets, scores of tax advisers from EY, KPMG, PwC and Deloitte have been beating their fee-clocks by the hour, cooking up fancy new ...
Healthscope's volatile history of ownership by vulture funds TPG Capital and The Carlyle Group and its vigorous buying and selling of medical businesses in Australia and overseas have thrown ...
Small targets like strawberries and sails deflect the public attention from the things which really matter, the two great challenges to contemporary democracy: climate change and inequality
Deloitte valued the Sydney Opera House at $4.6 billion. That might be "replacement cost" if you had to raze it to the ground and begin again. But how do you value something which has lured ...
"The @GBRFoundation deserves and will use every cent in its arsenal to save the reef," declared Today Show host Karl Stefanovich over the weekend, hardly suspecting the Twitter onslaught which ...
What was ticking through the mind of Malcolm Turnbull when he pledged the best part of half a billion dollars to the small fossil-fuel-funded charity which is the Great Barrier Reef Foundation?
Australia is destined to become the world's biggest exporter of gas, writes analyst Bruce Robertson. Importing gas to solve the challenge of rampaging gas prices is ludicrous and only paves the ...
Four years ago, Christine Milne, then Greens leader, rang out of the blue to chat about multinational tax avoiders. We discussed terms of reference for a possible Senate Inquiry. The final ...