The New South Wales auditor general has warned her unqualified audit of the state’s finances could be at risk after the secretary of transport told a public hearing he had not yet agreed to provide an extra $5.2bn to fund a controversial rail corporation.
A day after her scathing report accused the NSW Treasury of being “unnecessarily obstructive” during her audit of the government’s finances, auditor general Margaret Crawford told a parliamentary inquiry on Thursday that her unqualified audit would need to be “reaffirmed” after earlier evidence from transport secretary Rob Sharp.
