Tom Seymour, CEO of PwC, is imploding before our very eyes, his story is falling apart with every new piece of information that comes to light.
The clients are panicked. There are 900 supposedly intelligent partners of the firm. It is now a matter of days until the key warlords stand up and say, “You are f---ed mate, just get off the throne you bloody knob. You are doing more damage every time you open your mouth.”
Now it’s budget week and PwC is the naming rights sponsor of the headline fundraising dinners. Seymour has paid top dollar, positioned himself beautifully, done exactly what a skilled influence peddler would do. Then he soused himself in accelerant and took up smoking.. They will be looking at the PwC logo on his lectern and whispering among themselves. While Seymour delivers the vote of thanks, someone at his table will mercifully rub Novichok on his fork.
But the show will go on because PwC is embedded. The firm is co-morbid with the Commonwealth, whichever major party is in power. PwC is right now delivering critical contracts, providing government capability long ago denuded from the Australian Public Service. The right penalty here is for Chalmers to ban the firm from applying for future tenders for a period of time. That would really hurt.promised to “change the way that politics operates in this country”. Well, here’s the perfect test.
In May, newly released internal firm emails showed dozens of PwC partners and staff were involved in a plan to exploit, for profit, information Mr Collins had gleaned while advising the government on developing the multinational tax avoidance laws.
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