The stink bomb that Macquarie’s audit chair Michelle Hinchliffe had three previously undisclosed meetings with KPMG executives before the bank handed the firm its $95 million audit contract is almost too unbelievable to be true.As this column wrote last week, we have been dealt with waves of sanctimony from Macquarie about Hinchliffe’s role in the audit tender process for well past a year. Chiefly from the bank’s spokeswoman Lisa Jamieson, but also from the chair Glenn Stevens. According to Macquarie’s Mr Cerebral this was reduced to “silly talk”.Subscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Fetching latest articles