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Performance audit reports

Our performance audit work contributes to improved public sector administration and accountability through objective reporting on the performance of Australian Government programs and entities.

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This page lists completed performance audit reports. View all performance audits in-progress.

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Performance audit  (Auditor-General Report No. 42 of 2007–08)
Published: Thursday 19 June 2008
Published

Management of Customer Debt-Follow-up Audit

The objective of this follow-up audit was to examine Centrelink's progress in implementing the recommendations of the 2004–05 audit and the subsequent JCPAA inquiry.

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Entity 
Centrelink; Department of Employment, and Workplace Relations; Department of Families, Housing and Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
Sector 
Centrelink
Employment
Human Services
Social Services
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Performance audit  (Auditor-General Report No. 39 of 2007–08)
Published: Thursday 5 June 2008
Published

Managing e-Business Applications-Follow-up Audit

The objective of this follow-up audit is to examine DEEWR's implementation of the six recommendations made in the ANAO's 2003 report. This audit has had regard to the issues underlying the recommendations, and new administrative issues affecting their implementation.

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Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
Sector 
Education
Employment
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Performance audit  (Auditor-General Report No. 38 of 2007–08)
Published: Wednesday 4 June 2008
Published

Administration of Job Network Service Fees

The objective of this audit was to assess the effectiveness of DEEWR's administration of Job Network service fees. The ANAO examined DEEWR's arrangements to:

  • specify the nature and level of services to be supplied by JNMs and to communicate this to the JNMS;
  • calculate and pay service fees in accordance with the Employment Services Contract (ESC) 2006–2009 it has with JNMs; and
  • obtain assurance that JNMs have delivered services in accordance with the contract.
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Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
Sector 
Education
Employment
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Performance audit  (Auditor-General Report No. 31 of 2007–08)
Published: Tuesday 29 April 2008
Published

Management of Recruitment in the Australian Public Service

The objective of the audit was to assess whether APS agencies had sound approaches to recruitment, to assist in providing the workforce capability to deliver government programs effectively. Sound approaches to recruitment involve agencies:

  • establishing and implementing strategic approaches to recruitment to address current and future workforce priorities and goals;
  • managing and supporting recruitment activities through the provision of expert advice and support, legislative and procedural guidance material, and training for staff involved in recruitment activities;
  • conducting recruitment activities effectively and in compliance with legislative and administrative requirements; and
  • systematically monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness and efficiency of recruitment strategies, policies and activities.
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Sector 
Employment
Prime Minister & Cabinet
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Performance audit  (Auditor-General Report No. 29 of 2007–08)
Published: Wednesday 23 April 2008
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Parent School Partnerships Initiative

The objective of the audit was to review the effectiveness of the department's administration of the PSPI. To achieve this, the ANAO considered the department's program planning and design, service delivery arrangements and monitoring, review and reporting activities. The decision which resulted in the replacement of ASSPA with PSPI was a policy decision of the Government and, thus, was beyond the scope of this audit.

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Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
Sector 
Education
Employment
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Performance audit  (Auditor-General Report No. 10 of 2007–08)
Published: Wednesday 17 October 2007
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Whole of Government Indigenous Service Delivery Arrangements

The audit objective was to assess how four key departments: Education, Science and Training (DEST); Employment and Workplace Relations (DEWR); Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (FaCSIA); and Health and Ageing (DoHA) are implementing the Government's policy objective for Indigenous service delivery.

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Ageing
Education
Employment
Health
Indigenous
Prime Minister & Cabinet
Science
Social Services
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Performance audit  (Auditor-General Report No. 21 of 2003–04)
Published: Monday 22 December 2003
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Special Employee Entitlements Scheme for Ansett Group Employees (SEESA)

Directly after the collapse of Ansett in September 2001, most of its estimated 15 000 employees faced the possibility of retrenchment The Government immediately announced the introduction of the Special Employee Entitlements Scheme for Ansett group employees (SEESA) to address two risks facing the employees:

  • the risk-to a certain limit - of a shortfall in their payments of accrued employee entitlements from Ansett and,
  • the risk of delay in their being paid.

The objective of the audit was to determine how efficiently and effectively the two key elements of SEESA were managed: DEWR's management of the mechanism for making SEESA payments and DOTARS' management of the associated Air Passenger Ticket Levy.

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Department of Employment and Workplace Relations; Department of Transport and Regional Services
Sector 
Employment
Regional Development
Transport
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Performance audit  (Auditor-General Report No. 19 of 2003–04)
Published: Wednesday 17 December 2003
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Property Management

The objective of the audit was to assess whether the property management function, including the management of leases, was being performed efficiently and was providing an effective level of support for the delivery of the organisation's services (outputs). The audit evaluated property management policies and practices across the following dimensions:

  • planning and control;
  • business processes and practices; and
  • information and performance management.

Within each of these areas, a series of desirable proceses and controls (described as the evaluation criteria) were developed to assist in the assessment of each organisation's performance.

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Australian Communications Authority; Australian Film, Television and Radio School; Civil Aviation Safety Authority; Department of Employment and Workplace Relations; National Library of Australia; Department of Finance and Administration
Sector 
Arts
Centrelink
Communications
Employment
Finance
Infrastructure
Transport
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Type of content 
Performance audit  (Auditor-General Report No. 11 of 2003–04)
Published: Tuesday 4 November 2003
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Annual Performance Reporting

Annual Performance Reporting, No 11 2003-04 The audit reviewed the 2001-02 annual reports of the departments of : Communications, Technology and the Arts; Education, Science and Training; Employment and Workplace Relations; Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs and the Australian Customs Service. The objectives of this audit were to determine whether agencies had: established a sound annual reporting performance information framework; developed arrangements to ensure performance information is accurate and coherent; and appropriately analysed performance information in their annual reports.

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Across Agency
Sector 
Arts
Communications
Customs
Education
Employment
Immigration
Indigenous
Science
Training
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Performance audit  (Auditor-General Report No. 5 of 2003–04)
Published: Thursday 11 September 2003
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The Senate Order for Departmental and Agency Contracts (Autumn 2003)

This report relates to the fourth audit of Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997 (FMA Act) agencies' compliance with the Order of the Senate for Departmental and Agency Contracts, (the Senate Order) to list, on the Internet, contract details for the reporting period 4 February 2002 to 3 February 2003. The audit was conducted in accordance with the Senate Order request for the Auditor-General to undertake twice-yearly examinations of agency contracts listed on the Internet, and to report whether there had been any inappropriate use of confidentiality provisions. The objectives of the audit were to assess agency performance in relation to compiling the Internet listings required by the Senate Order and the appropriateness of the use of confidentiality provisions in Commonwealth contracts.

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Australian Federal Police (AFP);; Australian Greenhouse Office (AGO);; Department of Defence (Defence);; Department of Employment and Workplace Relations (DEWR);; Department of Family and Community Services (FaCS);1 and; National Capital Authority (NCA)
Sector 
Attorney-General's
Defence
Employment
Energy
Environment
Human Services
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