NSW auditor general savages Treasury for ‘late, unsophisticated, and inaccurate forecasts’
by Michael McGowan from on (#5VYH0)
Shadow treasurer Daniel Mookhey says those responsible must lose their jobs after the most severe lashing of any government I've ever read'
The New South Wales Treasury sent 1,000 pages of documents to the state's auditor general at about midnight" on Christmas Eve, just hours before she was due to sign off on the government's finances, according to a damning new report.
The NSW opposition has called for people within the state's Treasury to lose their jobs after the auditor general, Margaret Crawford, accused the department of an unnecessarily obstructive and difficult" bid to withhold key information about a controversial $40bn rail corporation late last year.
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