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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Henry Belot

Partners and staff at Australia’s big consultancy firms sacked for misconduct including sexual harassment

Greens senator Barbara Pocock
Australian Greens senator Barbara Pocock has been questioning representatives of Australia’s leading consultancy firms KPMG, Deloitte and EY during an upper house inquiry into the PwC tax scandal. Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP

Dozens of partners and staff at Australia’s biggest consulting firms have been fired in the past two years for conduct breaches including integrity failures, dishonesty, bullying and sexual harassment.

KPMG, Deloitte and EY have disclosed the sackings to a Senate inquiry into the behaviour of government consultancy firms, which was triggered by PwC’s misuse of confidential tax policy information.

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