‘Extremely disappointed’: WA government seeks reimbursement from Deloitte over flawed university report
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State paid consultancy firm $166,000 for feasibility study on merging the three tertiary institutions
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The Western Australian government has said it is “extremely disappointed” and is seeking an “expedited” cost recovery from Deloitte after errors were discovered in a report about a potential university merger, including AI-hallucinated references and hundreds of millions of dollars in cost discrepancies.
The government paid Deloitte $166,000 for a feasibility study on merging the University of Western Australia, Curtin University and Murdoch University.
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