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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Tamsin Rose

‘Ineffective’ rail corporation was designed to meet NSW budget goals, auditor general says

A train heading to Bondi Junction from Central railway station in Sydney, Australia
The auditor general found the total cost of consultants’ fees related to NSW’s rail corporation was $22.6m – almost double the initial estimate. Photograph: Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images

New South Wales’s controversial rail corporation’s formation was ineffective, incohesive and opaque and the corporation was designed to meet the government’s immediate budgetary goals, the auditor general has found.

Margaret Crawford’s report into the Transport Asset Holding Entity, or Tahe, also found the design had created an “unnecessarily complex” model with “significant uncertainty” around the possibility for future financial improvements.

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