The cost of delivering the 1,700-kilometre Inland Rail project in the eastern states has blown out to $31.4 billion, according to a damning new report, which warns the price tag may climb even higher because it is still unclear where the line "will start or finish".
Australia's former Energy Security Board chairperson Dr Kerry Schott led the review, finding the board managing the project did "not have adequate skills" and there had not been a "substantive" chief executive in nearly two years.
