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Performance audit (Auditor-General Report No. 13 of 2015–16)
Published: Thursday 10 December 2015
Published
The objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of the Department of Immigration and Border Protection’s (DIBP) management of compliance with visa conditions. To form a conclusion against this objective, the ANAO assessed whether DIBP:
- effectively manages risk and intelligence related to visa holders’ non-compliance with their visa conditions;
- promotes voluntary compliance through targeted campaigns and services that are appropriate and accessible to the community;
- conducts onshore compliance activities that are effective and appropriately targeted; and
- has effective administrative arrangements to support visa holders’ compliance with their visa conditions.
Entity
Department of Immigration and Border Protection
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Performance audit (Auditor-General Report No. 44 of 2006–07)
Published: Thursday 14 June 2007
Published
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.
Entity
Migration Review Tribunal; Refugee Review Tribunal
Type of content
Performance audit (Auditor-General Report No. 37 of 2006–07)
Published: Thursday 17 May 2007
Published
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.
Entity
Department of Health and Ageing
Type of content
Performance audit (Auditor-General Report No. 35 of 2006–07)
Published: Wednesday 2 May 2007
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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.
Entity
NO-DEPTS-LISTED
Type of content
Performance audit (Auditor-General Report No. 7 of 2006–07)
Published: Tuesday 17 October 2006
Published
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.
Entity
Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs