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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Business
Henry Belot

Former KPMG partner urges royal commission into consulting industry following damning report into PwC scandal

KPMG building
In the wake of the PwC Australia scandal, former KPMG partner Brendan Lyon told a Senate inquiry that a more wide-ranging probe of the consultancy industry would be beneficial. Photograph: Quentin Bargate/Alamy

A former KPMG partner turned whistleblower has urged the federal government to consider a royal commission into the consulting industry and to formally ban firms that breach legal and ethical standards.

In late 2021 Brendan Lyon told a New South Wales parliamentary inquiry that he had been pressured to amend his work, which found the state’s budget was $10bn worse off than Treasury claimed.

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