Nick Files
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50 appearances
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1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 7 Jul
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There's a lot of debate about what needs to be done to basically bring trust back to this sector because it's really shot through.
This story was very explosive.
It slightly came out of nowhere.
It turned out that two EY graduates had been moved over to Commonwealth Bank on contract to work on a technology upgrade of some sort, and they...
allegedly used that access that they had been given to look up the Prime Minister's banking details, possibly some other people.
Both of them were obviously dismissed.
When this came to light, Commonwealth Bank noticed immediately that something had happened.
And one of them is now being charged and appeared in court on those charges of illegally accessing data, personal data.
These two graduates that have been dismissed did conduct the necessary training, we're told, both from EY and from CBA, the bank.
So it's quite a shocker given the identity of the person that was breached and sent a ripple through an already bruised sector.
Absolutely.
The big four are having a proper nightmare down under.
The two main ones are the PwC scandal, which is slightly historic now, where a partner allegedly took confidential government information and shared that with some of his colleagues about tax legislation or tax laws that were coming in and that was used to try and win new business.
That played out a couple of years ago now and led to
some parts of PwC being broken off.
While PwC were struggling and being banned from bidding for certain work and some of their clients moved on, KPMG moved in to try and win some of those contracts and did so when some of their partners allegedly accessed confidential client information and used that to try to win and to win some other contracts.
Very seriously, we have heard in the past week that the Treasury Department is making some recommendations which could include a forced breakup of these businesses and then possibly other measures related to strengthening governance, possibly strengthening regulation as well.
And there's a lot of debate about what needs to be done to basically bring trust back to this sector because it's really shot through.
It's probably not recognized everywhere, but Australia has one of the most expensive housing markets in the world.
We are ranked just behind Hong Kong.
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