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

BARBARA POCOCK () (): My question is to the Minister for Finance. ABC's 4 Corners revealed allegations that KPMG has been ripping off the Australian public by submitting inflated invoices and billing the government for hours never worked. Since 2012, one in five government contracts have been varied—never down, always up—by an average of 139 per cent. This massive 'land-and-expand' tactic is straight out of the consultancy profit playbook. Will the government stop the rampant use of 'land-and-expand' by consultants?