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'Secret' report released: what is in damning Pitcher Partners audit of council projects and procurement?

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Updated January 26 2021 - 5:54pm, first published 12:30pm
CONTROVERSY: The town hall administration has been dogged by perceptions that projects have been mismanaged.
CONTROVERSY: The town hall administration has been dogged by perceptions that projects have been mismanaged.

An independent auditor's report was submitted to council officers in September, and has remained secret until this week. It is now available in full in the agenda to the council meeting on Wednesday January 27. Here we summarise the background to the report, which was referred to the Local Government Inspectorate last year, the circumstances leading up to its publication and the newly public findings within it.

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Jolyon Attwooll

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Reporter at the Ballarat Courier. Ex-Londoner and former commissioning editor at The Telegraph (the UK broadsheet, not the Sydney tabloid).

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