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Performance audit  (Auditor-General Report No. 44 of 2006–2007)
Published: Thursday 14 June 2007
Published

Management of Tribunal Operations-Migration Review Tribunal and Refugee Review Tribunal

The objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of the Tribunals' management of their operations. To this end, the audit examined whether the MRT and the RRT:

  • have achieved intended operational efficiencies from the introduction of common facilities, services and resourcing;
  • have established appropriate arrangements for governance, business planning and guidance of Members and staff, and for performance monitoring and reporting of Tribunal operations;
  • finalise cases within Tribunal time and productivity standards; and
  • provide applicants with services in accordance with service standards.

The audit covered Tribunal operations for review of visa decisions. The correctness of individual decisions was not assessed as part of the audit.

The audit focused particularly on developments in the Tribunals' management performance in the four year period from 2001–02 to 2004–05.

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Entity: 
Migration Review Tribunal; Refugee Review Tribunal
Immigration
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Performance audit  (Auditor-General Report No. 37 of 2006–2007)
Published: Thursday 17 May 2007
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Administration of the Health Requirement of the Migration Act 1958

The audit objective was to assess the effectiveness of DIAC's administration of the health requirement of the Migration Act 1958 (the Act). To achieve this objective, the ANAO examined whether DIAC was setting and implementing the health requirement in accordance with the Act, the Migration Regulations 1994 (the Regulations), and DIAC's own guidelines.

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Department of Health and Ageing
Ageing
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Immigration
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Performance audit  (Auditor-General Report No. 35 of 2006–2007)
Published: Wednesday 2 May 2007
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Preparations for the Re-tendering of DIAC's Detention and Health Services Contracts

The audit objective was to assess whether the early stages of DIAC's preparations for the re-tendering of the detention and health services contracts were consistent with sound practice. The audit focused on governance arrangements, in particular the recordkeeping arrangements, roles and responsibilities of personnel, expert advisors and the probity auditor—matters raised in the previous audit report. The audit did not examine the RFT, which is not due to be issued until April 2007.

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NO-DEPTS-LISTED
Immigration
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Performance audit  (Auditor-General Report No. 7 of 2006–2007)
Published: Tuesday 17 October 2006
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Visa Management: Working Holiday Makers

The objective of the audit was to assess whether the WHM programme is administered effectively and in accordance with relevant laws and policies. In particular, the ANAO focused on four key areas: the implementation of eWHM visa; authority for the WHM programme; decision-making for WHM visas; and programme performance information. A feature of the audit was the computer-aided scrutiny of over 300 000 visa application records to test DIMA's decision-making processes.

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Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs
Immigration
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Performance audit  (Auditor-General Report No. 55 of 2004–2005)
Published: Thursday 23 June 2005
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Workforce Planning

The objective of the audit was to consider the status of workforce planning by APS agencies against the background of the ANAO's 2001 Better Practice Guide Planning for the Workforce of the Future, in light of there commendations made in the MAC Organisational Renewal 2001 and the Senate Finance and Public Administration References Committee report Recruitmentand Training in the Australian Public Service 2003. Workforce planning was defined as a continuous process of shaping the workforce to ensure it is capable of delivering organisational objectives now and in the future.

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Performance audit  (Auditor-General Report No. 52 of 2004–2005)
Published: Monday 20 June 2005
Published

Legal Services Arrangements in the Australian Public Service

The objectives of the Australian National Audit Office's (ANAO) performance audit were to: examine the efficiency and effectiveness of agencies' procurement and management of legal services arrangements; determine adherence to Australian Government policy requirements; examine the effectiveness of the OLSC's monitoring of agencies' compliance with Government policy requirements; examine the OLSC's role in assisting agencies to comply with Government policy.

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Performance audit  (Auditor-General Report No. 14 of 2004–2005)
Published: Friday 5 November 2004
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Management and Promotion of Citizenship Services

The objectives of the audit were to determine whether: citizenship services were planned based on a risk assessment, especially in relation to fraud; and were monitored and reported on appropriately; decision-making was accurate, consistent and in line with relevent laws and policies and was supported by appropriate training and quality assurance (QA) mechanisms; client and outsourced services were managed effectively; and promotion strategies were effective and have been evaluated appropriately.

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Entity: 
Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs
Immigration
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Performance audit  (Auditor-General Report No. 13 of 2004–2005)
Published: Thursday 28 October 2004
Published

Superannuation Payments for Independent Contractors working for the Australian Government

This audit is the first time that the ANAO has looked at superannuation payments to independent contractors. The audit examined whether Commonwealth organisations were identifying contracts that were wholly or principally for the labour of the contractor and meeting statutory superannuation obligations under the Superannuation (Productivity Benefit) Act 1988.

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Taxation
Trade
Training
Transport
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Performance audit  (Auditor-General Report No. 2 of 2004–2005)
Published: Thursday 15 July 2004
Published

Onshore Compliance - Visa Overstayers and Non-Citizens Working Illegally

This audit examined DIMIA's administration of onshore compliance under rhe Migration Act 1958 (Cth) as amended (the Act). In particular, it focused on whether DIMIA had implemented appropriate onshore compliance strategies in regard to people who enter Australia lawfully but whose presence becomes unlawful through: - the expiry of their visa; or - a breach of visa conditions and cancellation of their visa.

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Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs
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Immigration
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