Revealed: University of Sydney spent millions more on consultants than repaying wages of casual staff

Greens say revelations a damning indictment' that speak to a broken governance culture' at prestigious universities

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The University of Sydney has spent millions of dollars more on external contractors and consultants - including PwC - for calculating and administering liability for wage underpayments and a review of its systems than it has paid out to staff, answers provided to the Greens have revealed.

In the answers to supplementary questions, provided to chair of the New South Wales education committee, Greens MLC Abigail Boyd, it was revealed the university had repaid 514 casual staff a total value of $2.8m as of last month, while across all remediation work streams", it had paid 10,692 professional staff a total value of $17.4m.

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