# ‘Extremely disappointed’: WA seeks reimbursement from Deloitte over flawed university report

https://mins.news/en/item/115052

- The Guardian, 2026-10-25 14:00 UTC
- Society
- Original: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/oct/26/deloitte-report-wa-university-mergers-260m-discrepancy-ai

> Western Australia is seeking an expedited recovery of the A$166,000 paid to Deloitte for a study on merging three universities. The report contained AI-hallucinated references and cost calculations with discrepancies of hundreds of millions of dollars. Deloitte will review and reissue it.