Andrew Charlton: Accenture paid him $35 million. Now he sits at Labor’s Cabinet table | Peter Lyndon-James

Accenture paid him $35 million. Now he sits at Labor’s Cabinet table

And it’s all legal.

$35 million. That’s what Accenture reportedly paid Andrew Charlton for his consulting firm in 2020. He stayed on as one of their managing directors.

Two years later, Labor parachuted him into Parramatta. Today he’s Cabinet Secretary and Assistant Minister for the Digital Economy, sitting at the centre of the same government handing Accenture roughly $300 million a year in contracts.

The same Accenture behind the BOM website disaster. $31 million contract, extended nine times, finished at $78 million. Same Accenture that got rewarded after the stuff-up with new deals from Defence, the AEC, and yes, another government website.

– Insert –We commented on Charlton’s arrival at the supposedly working class based Labor Party
Just a bunch of multi-millionaire fat cats working for US and Israeli interests nowadays

Now, let’s be fair. I checked Charlton’s register of interests myself. No Accenture shares. No Accenture directorship. He exited clean.

But here’s what I found instead. His entire $40 million fortune sits in three boxes on the public record: a family trust, a private investment company, and a unit trust. Each one described with a single word, “Investment.”

That’s it. That’s all the law requires him to tell you.

So ask the obvious question: can anyone check whether any minister still has money riding on companies winning contracts from their own government? No. The register names the boxes. It can’t open them.

And the bloke across the chamber? Angus Taylor. Seven years at McKinsey. Both sides of the dispatch box, one consulting industry, and a disclosure system built not to look too hard.

He’s followed every rule. That’s exactly the problem.

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