Australian Politics

Pyne poisons EY

David Llewellyn-Smith
Tuesday, 2 July 2019
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Via the AFR:

Senior EY officers held secret talks over the weekend about the controversy around the hiring of former defence minister Christopher Pyne, while on Monday Labor and key crossbench senators moved to offer support for a parliamentary inquiry into the role.

The Australian Financial Review has been told that the big four consulting firm’s senior figures, who are all shocked by the backlash the hire has generated, discussed a range of options on Sunday including withdrawing the offer.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.