The heads of one of Australia's biggest construction groups have reiterated their disappointment with a consultancy at the centre of an audit leak scandal, as it prepares to find a new auditor after almost 70 years.
Lendlease boss Tony Lombardo and chair John Gillam appeared before a powerful federal parliamentary committee examining the actions of KPMG as part of its oversight of the corporate regulator in Canberra on Friday.
The firm, which has more than half a billion dollars in taxpayer-funded government contracts, is feeling the heat over the alleged misuse of confidential board papers and the treatment of a whistleblower who raised concerns.
In 2023, the whistleblower complained that audit team members had used information in the Lendlease board papers to tender for the auditing work of other corporations.
