THE RORT · DOSSIER · THE BIG FOURSTATUS · EXPOSED
The ACCC: named together in 1 articleThe ACCCAustralian Banking Association: named together in 1 articleAustralian Banking As…McGrathNicol: named together in 1 articleMcGrathNicolNous Group: named together in 1 articleNous GroupThe RBA: named together in 1 articleThe RBARegulatory Capture: named together in 1 articleRegulatory CaptureThe Revolving Door: named together in 1 articleThe Revolving Door
DOSSIER / MECHANISMMECHANISM · CONSULTANCY

The Big Four

Status Exposed

Deloitte, PwC, EY and KPMG. Their federal consulting was cut after the PwC tax-leak scandal, yet the total consultancy bill still rose to a near-billion-dollar high as the work moved to mid-tier firms.

Last on record
2026-07
Named in
2 articles
Across
2 cases

Named in 2 articles across 2 cases 7 connections: companies 2, lobbies 1, mechanisms 2, regulators and bodies 2

Key figure on file
about A$800m
The fall in Big Four combined federal consulting spend since 2022, their share down from 11.0 per cent to 8.1 per cent. Canberra Times analysis of AusTender, October 2025
2
Articles naming it
2
Cases it recurs across
7
Linked in the graph
2
Figures on file

Fig. 01 / Where this name appears

The Consultancy Rortabout A$800mThe fall in Big Four combined federal consulting spend since 2022, their share down from 11.0 per cent to 8.1 per cent.1 article →The Inflation Rort11 article →
Fig. 01Source: article scan · every article naming itAs of 2026‑07Auto-assembled

Fig. 02 / On the record

  1. about A$800mThe fall in Big Four combined federal consulting spend since 2022, their share down from 11.0 per cent to 8.1 per cent.Source: Canberra Times analysis of AusTender, October 2025The crackdown that cost more →
  2. about A$1.7bnFederal revenue captured by mid-tier consultancies, more than quadrupled as the Big Four share fell.Source: Canberra Times analysis of AusTender, October 2025The crackdown that cost more →
Fig. 02Source: figures on file for this name, each tied to the article it came fromAs of 2026‑07Auto-assembled

Fig. 03 / Named together

The Big FourAustralian Banking Association: named together in 1 articleAustralian Banking Association1McGrathNicol: named together in 1 articleMcGrathNicol1Nous Group: named together in 1 articleNous Group1Regulatory Capture: named together in 1 articleRegulatory Capture1The ACCC: named together in 1 articleThe ACCC1The RBA: named together in 1 articleThe RBA1The Revolving Door: named together in 1 articleThe Revolving Door1
The 7 names most often in the same articles as The Big Four. A line's weight, and the number by each name, is how many articles name both. Grey chords join the neighbours most often named together themselves (two articles or more). Circles are people and organisations, squares are mechanisms. Named together is all this shows: it is not a finding about what the relationship is.
Fig. 03Source: article scan · articles naming bothAs of 2026‑07Auto-assembled

How this page is assembled. The name, status and role are the desk's entity record. The article list, case counts, connections and the figures under On the record are read by script from the published articles that name The Big Four: the desk's key figures where it declared them, otherwise figures harvested from those articles. A connection is a name that appears in the same articles; it is not a finding about the relationship. The page is rebuilt when an article is published or changed.

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