A majority of Australians want consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) to be banned from government contracts following the revelations the company used confidential government information to create products that allegedly allowed clients to not pay tax.
According to research released on June 20 by the Australia Institute, 79 percent or four in five Australians want the consulting firm banned from receiving new government work.
This includes nearly half of the respondents who would like to see the government issue a permanent ban. The survey interviewed 1,002 Australians from June 6-9.
Bill Browne the director of the Institute’s Democracy & Accountability Program, said that they found there was overwhelming support for PwC to face serious consequences for their behaviour, which was a “gross breach of integrity and trust.”…