Cost of NSW LPAB's PLT scandal must be disclosed as a separate item, and notes provided to explain clearly how the scandal came to be; cost must include provision for contingent liabilities

by Ganesh Sahathevan NSW LPAB's 23-24 Annual Report has additonal defeciencies The NSW LPAB's PLT scandal is not cost free, and so far included the expemse of the URBIS survey, and the internal PLT working group review. It is likely that other costs have and will be incurred, in the course of unravelling a scandal that the NSW LPAB would have been aware of since at least 2006. There is also a paper trail to show that the NSW LPAB Executive Officer at the time, Louise Pritchard, had personal knowledge of governance matters which concerned the PLT, but were however excluded from the NSW LPAB Annual Report 2018 (see story below). Gi...