The cover-up of a ‘financial mirage’ that has inflated the NSW budget and may put rail safety at risk We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Normal text size Very large text size The NSW government has attempted to cover up how it artificially inflated the state’s budgets by tens of billions of dollars after it shifted the rail network’s costs onto a corporation that still hasn’t been able to properly operate six years after it was launched. A trove of highly confidential documents and testimony of whistleblowers reveals NSW Treasury pressured accounting giant KPMG to delete or amend aspects of a report commissioned by Transport for NSW that found the plan could end up costing the state’s coffers more than it saved.