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Type of content
Performance audit in-progress
Recent
Due to table: June, 2021
Open for contribution
The objective of this audit is to examine the effectiveness of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority’s regulation of permits and approvals, including its implementation of recommendations from Auditor-General Report No.3 of 2015–16.
Entity
Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority
Contact
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Type of content
Performance audit in-progress
Due to table: April, 2021
Open for contribution
The objective of this audit is to assess the effectiveness of the Australian Fisheries Management Authority’s management of Commonwealth fisheries.
Entity
Australian Fisheries Management Authority
Contact
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Type of content
Performance audit in-progress
Due to table: April, 2021
Open for contribution
The objective of this audit is to assess the effectiveness of the Australian Federal Police’s framework to ensure the lawful exercise of powers in accordance with applicable legislation.
Entity
Australian Federal Police
Contact
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Type of content
Performance audit in-progress
Due to table: May, 2021
Report preparation
The objective of this audit is to assess the effectiveness of the Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment’s response to non-compliance with plant and animal biosecurity requirements.
Entity
Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment
Contact
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Type of content
Performance audit (potential)
Potential audit: 2020-21
Potential
The audit would assess how effectively the Department of Home Affairs has managed Australian border travel restrictions.
To combat the public health impact of COVID-19, strict border measures were put in place that restrict travel to and from Australia. On 25 March 2020, the Minister for Health made a determination, under the Biosecurity Act 2015, restricting the travel of Australian citizens and permanent residents outside Australia (the Biosecurity (Human Biosecurity Emergency) (Human Coronavirus with Pandemic Potential) (Overseas Travel Ban Emergency Requirements) Determination 2020). Further, the National Cabinet and the Australian Government have agreed to restrictions relating to international arrivals and changes to visa arrangements.
The audit would examine the Department of Home Affairs' management of the restrictions relating to overseas travel, including planning, advice to government, public messaging, exemption processing and responses to non-compliance.
Entity
Department of Health; Department of Home Affairs
Contact
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Type of content
Performance audit (potential)
Potential audit: 2020-21
Potential
This audit would assess the effectiveness of the Attorney-General’s Department in promoting the revised Protective Security Policy Framework (PSPF) and the extent to which selected entities are meeting its core requirements.
The Attorney-General has overall policy responsibility for Australian Government protective security arrangements, while accountable authorities are responsible for protective security arrangements within their own organisations. The PSPF assists entities to protect their people, information and assets at home and overseas by providing policy, guidance and better practice advice for governance, personnel, physical and information security.
In 2015, the Independent Review of Whole-of-Government Internal Regulation (the Belcher review) identified the PSPF as an opportunity for reform and red tape reduction. The review recommended a shift from the existing compliance framework underpinned by risk management principles, to a principles-based approach. The new PSPF policy aims to reduce the administrative burden of compliance and to support entities to better engage with risks relevant to their functions. Entities are required to review their policies, procedures and templates and consider whether any changes are necessary to implement core requirements.
Entity
Attorney-General's Department
Contact
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Type of content
Performance audit (potential)
Potential audit: 2020-21
Potential
This audit would assess the management of interests, information, gifts, regulatory activities, internal controls and credit cards at the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, including direction and oversight by accountable authorities.
Entity
Australian Competition and Consumer Commission; Australian Securities & Investments Commission; Australian Prudential Regulatory Authority
Contact
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Type of content
Performance audit (potential)
Potential audit: 2020-21
Potential
This audit would assess the effectiveness of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) Quality and Safeguards Commission’s regulatory functions.
The commission was established in 2018 and is responsible for implementing the NDIS Quality and Safeguarding Framework. The framework is designed to provide a nationally consistent approach to help empower and support NDIS participants to exercise choice and control, while ensuring appropriate safeguards are in place and establishing expectations for providers and their staff to deliver high-quality support. From July 2019, the commission has been responsible for NDIS provider registration, complaints, serious incident notification, oversight of restrictive practices, and investigation and enforcement.
Entity
NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission
Contact
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Type of content
Performance audit (potential)
Potential audit: 2020-21
Potential
This audit would assess the effectiveness of the Australian Skills Quality Authority’s (ASQA’s) operations. ASQA is the national regulator for the vocational education and training sector in all states and territories except Western Australia and Victoria, where its remit is limited to courses taught nationally from registered training organisations in these jurisdictions. In 2019–20, ASQA had a budget of $55 million.
Recent reviews of ASQA have identified scope for the authority to improve its use of regulatory powers. The audit would assess how effectively ASQA manages its functions and operations to achieve its aim of ensuring that the sector’s quality is maintained through effective regulation.
Entity
Australian Skills Quality Authority
Contact
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Type of content
Performance audit (potential)
Potential audit: 2020-21
Potential
This audit would assess the effectiveness of the Australian Taxation Office’s (ATO’s) activities in addressing superannuation guarantee noncompliance, including the extent to which the ATO has implemented the recommendations made by the ANAO in Auditor-General Report No. 39 2014–15 Promoting Compliance with Superannuation Guarantee Obligations, and the Senate Economics References Committee inquiry report Superbad — Wage theft and non-compliance of the Superannuation Guarantee, tabled in May 2017.
In December 2017, the Australian Government announced that it will provide the ATO with $20.9 million over four years from 2017–18 to establish a Superannuation Guarantee Compliance Taskforce to address noncompliance and safeguard employees’ superannuation guarantee entitlements. The taskforce aims to improve the ATO’s capacity to proactively monitor and take action to improve employer compliance with superannuation guarantee obligations.
Entity
Australian Taxation Office
Contact
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