In Australia, a growing whistleblower scandal at consulting giant KPMG is drawing some of the country’s most powerful figures into a parliamentary inquiry. According to both the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, former New South Wales Premier Mike Baird is among those who have been ordered to appear at a public hearing in Canberra. The details of the scandal remain under intense scrutiny, but the forced testimony of high-profile individuals signals that lawmakers are treating the matter with unusual gravity.
Separately, former Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop issued a scathing resignation letter from her position as Chancellor of the Australian National University. Bishop cited “increasingly contemptuous intervention” by the university regulator and what she called “coercive threats” as the reasons for her departure — a striking public rebuke from one of the country’s most prominent political figures.
