NSW auditor general savages Treasury for ‘late, unsophisticated, and inaccurate forecasts’

The NSW auditor general Margaret Crawford has slapped the state’s Treasury with an ‘extreme risk finding’ in a damning report into the state’s finances. Photograph: Brendan Esposito/AAP

The New South Wales Treasury sent 1,000 pages of documents to the state’s auditor general in the early hours of Christmas Eve, on the same day 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.