Daniel Ziffer

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2,266 appearances 25 recordings 3 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 9 Sep

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7am · Big money, client secrets, and a silenced whistleblower: Inside the KPMG scandal · 29 Jun 2026 podcast

By agreement, they won't bid for any work until September.

You don't need to say, oh, we're not going to bid for anything.

Don't worry.

No one's put you on the list.

KPMG has a big problem.

It would not surprise me if the part of KPMG that deals with government contracts, particularly in the Defence Department, which is a huge earner for them, if that gets hived off into a different company.

or if order gets separated out.

But what government has done since PwC is they've reduced their reliance on it.

The Morrison government, in particular, largely outsourced huge swathes of the public service at enormous and much greater than if they just employed people expense to these firms.

We're talking about billions of dollars here.

I think, again, this is probably just another chance where the federal government will use this opportunity to screw down the bill and probably trim in their use of consultants.

But there's a lot of things they need them for.

What they're doing is jobs that used to be done by the public service largely.

But over time, as the public service has been hollowed out, they haven't had that specific skill.

There is an element that the way that people are paid in the public service doesn't allow them to be paid enough to maintain some of those really high skills.

There's a particular consulting firm in Canberra

that gets $200 million a year and they have like a two-room office.

And you're like, what are they doing in there?

Well, what they do is they're essentially a recruiter for the Australian Signals Directorate, our code breakers.

Now, if you want to be a public servant hacker, they just can't pay you enough.

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