PricewaterhouseCoopers calculates cost of stand-alone vote to be triple federal government’s figureThe “valid cost” of a plebiscite on same-sex marriage may be more than triple the federal government’s estimate of $160m,partly because of mental health harms to lesbian, homosexual, or bisexual,transgender and intersex Australians, a report says.
Professional services firm PricewaterhouseCoopers calculated the real cost of the plebiscite at $525m, and based on its estimates of $281m for the time cost of voting,$158m to conduct voting, $66m for campaigning and $20m for mental health harms to 50000 LGBTI Australians.
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Source: theguardian.com