Barbara Pocock (SA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Finance, Senator Gallagher. Thousands of Australians have shared the Senate's outrage at the behaviour of PwC over recent years. This is a firm that used confidential government information to help some of the world's biggest multinationals avoid tax—a consultancy firm that wreaked at least $2.5 million in fees in doing so. Since the discovery of this debacle, PwC has been out of government consulting for just 16 months. On 15 July, the Department of Finance green lighted PwC back into government work despite the fact that there are investigations underway by the AFP and others. You have made no comment on Finance's decision to green light PwC. Minister, do you support the green lighting of PwC back into government contracting—yes or no?