Expert Voices
This section features candid interviews with whistleblowers, legal experts, and financial professionals who have direct experience with the inner workings of Deloitte, PwC, EY, and KPMG.
Through these conversations, we examine critical issues such as audit liability, professional scepticism, regulatory gaps, and the cultural pressures that influence decision-making inside the Big Four. The goal is to move past surface-level reporting and bring forward the perspectives of those who have seen how these firms actually function — and where they fall short.
Professor Brendan Lyon on the CA ANZ Liability Scheme
From TAHE Whistleblower to Supreme Court Litigant: Professor Lyon on Why Big Four Liability Caps Undermine Standards and Fair Competition
Big Four Whistleblowers and the Architecture of Silence
A guest post by Abdelhamid Taha, member of the Secretariat of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Investment Fraud & Fairer Financial Services (writing in a personal capacity).
Associate Professor Andy Schmulow on the KPMG Australia Scandal
Associate Professor Andy Schmulow is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Wollongong, specialising in banking and financial regulation, conduct risk, and corporate governance. He has emerged as one of the most consistent and outspoken critics of practices within KPMG Australia.