In this day and age of class warfare, victims, armchair critics,...

In this day and age of class warfare, victims, armchair critics, journalist clickbait and general misunderstanding of what constitutes conflict (perceived or real) I can understand your point of view. Our views even differ on what constitutes a large public company - BLA was barely one in my book. It is a ridiculous concept to call this a conflict. Was EY supposed to decline a tenant? IF BLA had different auditors and were already in the building and wanted to change auditors to EY should they not consider EY? Should EY decline? Why does it matter ‘especially if BLA were a large public company’? If they were small would it be OK or even less of an issue? Depending on how big this building is I am willing to bet there are more tenants that have EY as their auditor or at least give them some sort of work. If this is a conflict then there are thousands of office moves coming up all over Australia.

This is classic tabloid journalism inside a credible news outfit and well below Joe’s level but that is where the debate sits nowdays.