{"id":25646,"date":"2026-10-25T22:37:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T21:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/25\/extremely-disappointed-wa-government-seeks-reimbursement-from-deloitte-over-flawed-university-report\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T22:37:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T21:37:19","slug":"extremely-disappointed-wa-government-seeks-reimbursement-from-deloitte-over-flawed-university-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/25\/extremely-disappointed-wa-government-seeks-reimbursement-from-deloitte-over-flawed-university-report\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Extremely disappointed\u2019: WA government seeks reimbursement from Deloitte over flawed university report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State paid consultancy firm $166,000 for feasibility study on merging the three tertiary institutions<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl\">breaking news email<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/w4u7jx3\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Western Australian government has said it is \u201cextremely disappointed\u201d and is seeking an \u201cexpedited\u201d 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.<\/p>\n<p>The government paid Deloitte $166,000 for a feasibility study on merging the University of Western Australia, Curtin University and Murdoch University.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2026\/oct\/26\/deloitte-report-wa-university-mergers-260m-discrepancy-ai\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/515a0bf6dc96a2183fa9f4bc90a2fbeac2d91271\/1105_835_1970_1577\/master\/1970.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=d30f1393995ca46dcd987c0df7bdfd46\" title=\"\u2018Extremely disappointed\u2019: WA government seeks reimbursement from Deloitte over flawed university report\" \/>State paid consultancy firm $166,000 for feasibility study on merging the three tertiary institutions<br \/>\nGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast<br \/>\nThe Western Australian government has said it is \u201cextremely disappointed\u201d and is seeking an \u201cexpedited\u201d 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.<br \/>\nThe government paid Deloitte $166,000 for a feasibility study on merging the University of Western Australia, Curtin University and Murdoch University. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State paid consultancy firm $166,000 for feasibility study on merging the three tertiary institutions Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The Western Australian government has said it is \u201cextremely disappointed\u201d and is seeking an \u201cexpedited\u201d cost recovery from Deloitte after errors were discovered in a report about a potential university &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/25\/extremely-disappointed-wa-government-seeks-reimbursement-from-deloitte-over-flawed-university-report\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018Extremely disappointed\u2019: WA government seeks reimbursement from Deloitte over flawed university report<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":25647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25646"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}