The New South Wales government has dismissed EY Oceania’s public and private assurances about its conflict of interest policies just hours after its senior partners fronted a parliamentary inquiry.
Relations between the firm and the state government soured last year after Guardian Australia revealed EY did not disclose it was being paid by Santos for assurance work before being awarded a $67,375 contract to inform a department’s “future of gas statement”, which greenlit the gas giant’s Narrabri development.
