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Anthony McDonald

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Chanticleer
CGT backflip flops, KPMG cops a roasting & RBA’s rate rise warning

I mean, Deb O'Neill really giving it to these guys.

Chanticleer
CGT backflip flops, KPMG cops a roasting & RBA’s rate rise warning

And I think, you know, these senators have been through a few of these inquiries now and they've,

Chanticleer
CGT backflip flops, KPMG cops a roasting & RBA’s rate rise warning

Really just not happy with some of this stuff and some of the issues that have come back again from the PwC one a couple of years ago at KPMG and just throwing them to KPMG's Andrew Yates and say, look, last time we spoke to you, there was this PwC going on in the background.

Chanticleer
CGT backflip flops, KPMG cops a roasting & RBA’s rate rise warning

You told us that your firm was better for these reasons.

Chanticleer
CGT backflip flops, KPMG cops a roasting & RBA’s rate rise warning

Meanwhile, you've been dealing with your own whistleblower complaint.

Chanticleer
CGT backflip flops, KPMG cops a roasting & RBA’s rate rise warning

in the background.

Chanticleer
CGT backflip flops, KPMG cops a roasting & RBA’s rate rise warning

Like, why don't you say anything at the time?

Chanticleer
CGT backflip flops, KPMG cops a roasting & RBA’s rate rise warning

And why put your firm up on this sort of pedestal when you know that there's these own inherent trust issues inside there?

Chanticleer
CGT backflip flops, KPMG cops a roasting & RBA’s rate rise warning

So, I mean, Yates really copped it.

Chanticleer
CGT backflip flops, KPMG cops a roasting & RBA’s rate rise warning

I thought, you know, at least he did sit there and cop it and didn't storm out or something because it was really one-way traffic directed at him.

Chanticleer
CGT backflip flops, KPMG cops a roasting & RBA’s rate rise warning

I thought, James, what struck me on the Lendlease one though, did you hear when they said that Lendlease had been using KPMG for 68 years?

Chanticleer
CGT backflip flops, KPMG cops a roasting & RBA’s rate rise warning

Yeah.

Chanticleer
CGT backflip flops, KPMG cops a roasting & RBA’s rate rise warning

Like, that's like,

Chanticleer
CGT backflip flops, KPMG cops a roasting & RBA’s rate rise warning

So not only were they a big KPMG client, but they've been using them for 68 years.

Chanticleer
CGT backflip flops, KPMG cops a roasting & RBA’s rate rise warning

You think if there's one...

Chanticleer
CGT backflip flops, KPMG cops a roasting & RBA’s rate rise warning

you know, auditor you think you trust, it's the one that's been looking after you for 68 years.

Chanticleer
CGT backflip flops, KPMG cops a roasting & RBA’s rate rise warning

Oh, 100%.

Chanticleer
CGT backflip flops, KPMG cops a roasting & RBA’s rate rise warning

Like the irony of KPMG trying to keep documents to protect its own confidentiality when the whole reason everyone's sitting there is because some other company's confidentiality was breached is just gold.

Chanticleer
CGT backflip flops, KPMG cops a roasting & RBA’s rate rise warning

And, you know, that just reverberated, I think, around the day.

Chanticleer
CGT backflip flops, KPMG cops a roasting & RBA’s rate rise warning

James, were there any other bombshells that sort of caught your ear?