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Introduction

Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry

  • Audit strategy overview
  • Potential audits
    • Drought Assistance
    • Northern Australia Quarantine Strategy
    • Quarantine and Biosecurity Systems
    • Caring for Our Country Program
    • Australia’s Farming Future
    • Management of Domestic Fishing Compliance—Follow on

Attorney-General’s

  • Audit strategy overview
  • Audits in progress at 1 July 2010
    • National Security Hotline
    • Night Patrols
    • Australian Federal Police Management of Implementation of New Policy Initiatives
    • Management of the Aviation and Maritime Security Identity Cards Regime
    • Australian Federal Police Protection Services
  • Potential audits
    • Australian Federal Police Management of Project Spectrum
    • Australian Federal Police Management and Implementation of the Fighting Terrorism at its Source Initiative
    • Customs and Border Protection’s Detection of Illicit Drugs and Precursors
    • Customs and Border Protection’s Management Arrangements for the Processing of Imports
    • Customs and Border Protection’s Processing of Incoming International Air Passengers (secondary examination phase)
    • Attorney-General’s Department Management of Territories
    • ASIO’s Security Assessments of Individuals
    • Cyber-safety Plan
    • AUSTRAC’s Implementation of the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Act 2006

Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy

Climate Change and Energy Efficiency

Defence

  • Audit strategy overview
  • Audits in progress at 1 July 2010
    • Major Projects Report 2009–10
    • Operational Release of Navy Major Systems
    • Mechanisms for Capturing and Communicating Lessons from Operational Activities in the Australian Defence Force
    • Explosive Ordnance Services Contract
    • Accountability for Explosive Ordnance Held at Australian Defence Force Units
    • Information and Communication Technology Strategic Planning
  • Potential audits
    • Major Projects Report 2010–11
    • SEA 4000 Air Warfare Destroyer—Phase 3, the Air Warfare Destroyer Build Project
    • Implementation of the Military Integrated Logistic Information System
    • New Air Combat Capability—AIR 6000 Phase 2A and 2B
    • Implementation of the recommendations of the 2008 Defence Procurement and Sustainment Review
    • Management of the Defence Estate
    • Australian Defence Force Fuel Management
    • Management of the Australian Defence Force Rehabilitation Program
    • Remediation of the Lightweight Torpedo Replacement Project
    • Defence Force Recruitment (DFR)
    • Management of Commercial Prepayments
    • Management of the Reserve Employer Support Payment (ESP) Scheme
    • LAND 121 (Phase 3)—Project Overlander
    • Management of the Defence Community Organisation
    • Gate Reviews for Capital Equipment Acquisition Projects
    • Defence’s Involvement in Australian Civilian Activities
    • Australian Defence Force (ADF) Clothing and Personal Equipment
    • Sustainment of Navy’s Afloat Support Capability
    • Management of the Skilling Australia’s Defence Industry (SADI) Program
    • AIR 5439—Acquisition of F/A–18F Block II Super Hornet Capability
    • AIR 9000—Acquisition of the MRH 90 Helicopter Capability
    • Sea 4000 Air Warfare Destroyer—Vendor Selection, Post Second-Pass Project Approval
    • Sea 4000 Air Warfare Destroyer—Management of Technical Risk Associated with Air Warfare Destroyer
    • Defence Science and Technology Organisation’s Management of Scientific and Technical Research
    • Retention of Military Personnel
    • Australian Defence Force Gap Year Program
    • Fraud Control
    • Management of Defence’s Obligations to Pay for Australian Government Taxes, Fees and Charges
    • Implementation of Revised Governance Arrangements within the Defence Science and Technology Organisation
    • Cost, Schedule and Capability Executive Reporting (Defence Materiel Organisation)

A. Veterans’ Affairs

  • Audit strategy overview
  • Potential audits
    • Mental Health and Related Services Delivered to Younger Veterans
    • Management of Arrangements with State and Territory Governments for the Purchase of Hospital Services for Veterans

Education, Employment and Workplace Relations

  • Audit strategy overview
  • Audits in progress at 1 July 2010
    • Digital Education Revolution
    • Multifunctional Aboriginal Childrens Services and Creches
    • Trade Training Centres in Schools
  • Potential audits
    • Early Childhood Education National Partnership
    • My School Website
    • Education Investment Fund
    • Productivity Places Program
    • Commonwealth Grants Scheme for Higher Education
    • Smarter Schools National Partnerships
    • Administration of the Child Care Benefit
    • Fair Work Education and Information Program
    • Fair Work Australia
    • Administration of Comcare
    • General Employee Entitlement Support Schemes
    • Job Services Australia
    • National Partnership Agreement on Indigenous Early Childhood Development—Delivery of the Children and Family Centres
    • Initiatives to Support Indigenous Boarding Facilities
    • Expansion of the Intensive Literacy and Numeracy Programs and Individual Learning
    • The Establishment, Implementation and Administration of the Jobs Fund

Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts

  • Audit strategy overview
  • Audits in progress at 1 July 2010
    • Green Loans
    • Home Insulation Program
    • Restoring the Balance in the Murray-Darling Basin
  • Potential audits
    • Sustainable Rural Water Use and Infrastructure Program
    • Caring for Our Country Program
    • The Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999—Follow on
    • Australia Council
    • Screen Australia
    • The Establishment, Implementation and Administration of the Jobs Fund

Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs

  • Audit strategy overview
  • Audits in progress at 1 July 2010
    • Implementation of the Family Relationship Centres Initiative
    • Fixing Houses for Better Health
    • Army Aboriginal Community Assistance Program
    • Government Business Managers
    • Home Ownership on Indigenous Land
  • Potential audits
    • Affordable Housing Initiatives
    • Delivery of Payment Entitlements
    • Financial Management Program
    • Management and Delivery of Indigenous Housing
    • National Partnership Agreement on Indigenous Economic Participation
    • Income Management and the BasicsCard
    • National Partnership Agreement on Indigenous Remote Service Delivery Strategy
    • Grants Management

Finance and Deregulation

  • Audit strategy overview
  • Potential audits
    • Administration of Government Advertising Arrangements
    • Implementation of Key Aspects of the Commonwealth Grant Guidelines
    • Implementation of Improvements to the Administration of Parliamentarians’ Entitlements
    • Administration of the Costing of Election Commitments
    • Administration of the Financial Disclosure Provisions of the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918
    • Establishment and Management of the Nation Building Funds: the Education Investment Fund
    • Administration of the Gateway Review Process

Foreign Affairs and Trade

Health and Ageing

  • Audit strategy overview
  • Audits in progress at 1 July 2010
    • Practice Incentives Program
    • Food Standards Regulation
    • National Blood Supply
    • General Practice Training
  • Potential audits
    • Aged Care Standards and Accreditation
    • Access to Allied Psychological Services
    • Therapeutic Goods Regulation
    • Mental Health Nurse Incentive Program
    • Improving Palliative Care
    • Aged Care Complaints
    • GP Super Clinics
    • National E-Health Implementation
    • Investing in Health Infrastructure
    • Preventative Health

Human Services

  • Audit strategy overview
  • Audits in progress at 1 July 2010
    • Service Delivery in CRS Australia
  • Potential audits
    • Implementation of Stage 2 and Stage 3 of the Child Support Scheme Reforms
    • Child Support Agency’s Management of International Debt
    • Child Support Agency’s Change of Assessment Process
    • Child Support Agency’s Management of Employer Withholdings
    • Customer Service Feedback
    • Income Management and the BasicsCard
    • Service Delivery in Australian Hearing
    • Efficiencies in the Human Services Portfolio

A. Centrelink

  • Audit strategy overview
  • Audits in progress at 1 July 2010
    • Centrelink Fraud Investigations
    • Centrelink’s Role in the Process of Appeal to the Social Security Appeals Tribunal and the Administrative Appeals Tribunal
  • Potential audits
    • Centrelink’s Quality Assurance Framework
    • Case Management
    • Specialist Officers
    • Debt Prevention
    • Delivery of Payment Entitlements
    • Tasmanian Freight Equalisation Scheme
    • Income Management and the BasicsCard
    • Caroline Chisholm Centre Lease

B. Medicare Australia

  • Audit strategy overview
  • Audits in progress at 1 July 2010
    • Practice Incentives Program
  • Potential audits
    • Administration of Aged Care Payments
    • Medicare Safety Net
    • Rural and Remote Programs
    • Medicare Australia’s Role in the Development of the Unique Healthcare Identifier (UHI) Service
    • The Australian Organ Donor Register
    • Compensation Recovery Program
    • Capturing and Managing Customer Service Feedback

Immigration and Citizenship

Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government 

  • Audit strategy overview
  • Audits in progress at 1 July 2010
    • Conduct of the National Infrastructure Audit and Development of the Infrastructure Priority List
    • Audits of Regional Funding Programs
    • Administration of CASA’s Safety Management Systems Approach
    • Management of the Aviation and Maritime Security Identification Regime
  • Potential audits
    • Tasmanian Freight Equalisation Scheme
    • Administration of Round 2 of the Strategic Projects Component of the Regional and Local Community Infrastructure Program
    • The Establishment, Implementation and Administration of the Jobs Fund

Innovation, Industry, Science and Research

  • Audit strategy overview
  • Potential audits
    • Green Car Fund
    • Research Block Grants
    • Cooperative Research Centres Programs
    • Commercialisation Grants
    • Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation—Administration and Coordination of Selected National Research Flagships
    • Australia Research Council — Follow on
    • Establishment and Management of the Nation Building Funds: the Education Investment Fund

Parliamentary Services

Prime Minister and Cabinet

Resources, Energy and Tourism

Treasury

  • Audit strategy overview
  • Potential audits
    • The Establishment, Implementation and Administration of the Jobs Fund
    • Establishment and Management of the Nation Building Funds: the Education Investment Fund (EIF)
    • Development and Implementation of the Australian Government’s Guarantee of Large Deposits and Wholesale Funding
    • Administration of the Costing of Election Commitments

A. Australian Taxation Office

  • Audit strategy overview
  • Audits in progress at 1 July 2010
    • The Tax Office’s Implementation of its Client Contact—Work Management—Case Management System
    • Administration of the Wine Equalisation Tax
    • The Tax Office’s Administration of Fuel Tax Credit Payment Scheme
  • Potential audits
    • Administration of the Superannuation Lost Members Register
    • The Compliance Approach Towards, and Management of, Small to Medium Enterprises
    • Administration of Transfer Pricing
    • Project Wickenby
    • Administration of the Non-profit Organisations Sector
    • Administration of the Obligations of Employers Relating to Staff
    • Tax Office Shopfronts
    • Administration of the First Home Saver Account
    • Administration of the Luxury Car Tax
    • Management of GST Liability Adjustments

Cross-portfolio Audits

  • Audits in progress at 1 July 2010
    • Direct Sourcing Procurement Processes
    • Capitalisation of Software
    • Senate Order for Departmental and Agency Contracts (Calendar Year 2009 Compliance)
    • Certificate of Compliance
  • Potential audits
    • Development of Key Performance Indicators to Support the Outcomes and Programs Framework
    • Performance Reporting Against the New Financial Framework
    • Audit Committees and Internal Audit
    • Developing and Managing Internal Budgets
    • Managing Employees with a Disability
    • Information and Communication Technology—Confidentiality of Client Information
    • Information and Communication Technology—Protection of information
    • Implementation and Management of Electronic Document Records Management Systems
    • Senate Order for Departmental and Agency Contracts
    • Procurement
    • Closing the Gap in Indigenous Disadvantage Initiative: Performance Information Reporting
    • Implementation of the COAG Service Delivery Principles for Programs and Services for Indigenous Australians
    • ICT Reform Program
    • Record keeping
    • Freedom of Information
    • Capacity Development for Indigenous Service Delivery

Better Practice Guides

    • Potential guides
      • Strategic and Operational Management of Assets by Public Sector Entities
      • Managing Human Resource Information Systems—Security and Control Better Practice Guide
      • Fraud Control
      • Public Sector Audit Committees
      • Public Sector Governance Update
      • Developing and Managing Contracts
      • Green Office Procurement and Sustainable Office Management Better Practice Guide
      • Performance Reporting

Financial Statement Audits by ministerial portfolio/entity

ANAO Senior Contact Officers

 

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