The objective of this audit is to assess the effectiveness of the Australian Taxation Office’s (ATO) management of small business taxpayer debt.

The objective of this audit is to assess whether the selected entities’ administration of Freedom of Information Act 1982 (FOI) requests is effective in giving the community access to Australian Government information.

The objective of this audit is to assess the effectiveness to date of the Department of Defence’s (Defence) planning and implementation of the Collins Class Life of Type Extension.

The objective of this audit is to assess the effectiveness of the Department of Health and Aged Care’s (Health) development and monitoring of suicide prevention measures.

The objective of this audit is to assess the effectiveness of the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment & Water (DCCEEW) and Australian Renewable Energy Authority’s (ARENA) delivery of the Community Batteries for Household Solar program.

This audit would assess the effectiveness of the processes to design and co-ordinate programs to address rates of family and gendered violence, and out of home care, under the National Agreement on Closing the Gap.

Target 12 of the National Agreement on Closing the Gap is to reduce the rate of over-representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in out-of-home care by 45 per cent by 2031. Target 13 is to reduce the rate of all forms of family violence and abuse against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and children by at least 50 per cent by 2031. Both targets seek to achieve the goal of stronger families. The Australian government has agreed to commitments under the National Plan to End Violence against Women and Children 2022–2032 and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Action Plan 2023–25. The Department of Social Services plays a leading role in supporting the achievement of targets 12 and 13. The National Indigenous Australians Agency is responsible for leading and coordinating the development and implementation of Australia’s Closing the Gap targets in partnership with Indigenous Australians.

The ANAO agreed to consider an audit into target 13 in response to recommendation 8 of the Senate Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs’ August 2024 report into Missing and Murdered First Nations Women and Children.

Justice reinvestment is a long-term, community-led approach that aims to prevent crime, address the drivers of contact with the justice system, and improve justice outcomes for First Nations peoples in a particular place or community. Justice reinvestment aligns with Outcomes 10 and 11 and the Priority Reforms under the National Agreement on Closing the Gap, to reduce the overrepresentation of young people and adults in the criminal justice system. In the October 2022 Budget $69 million was committed over 4 years (from 2022–23) to establish a National Justice Reinvestment Program to support up to 30 community-led justice reinvestment initiatives, with ongoing funding of $20 million per year from 2026–27. In the 2023–24 Budget, an additional $10 million was committed over 4 years to support place-based justice reinvestment initiatives in the Central Australia region of the Northern Territory. Funding was delivered through open, non-competitive grant funding rounds. As of May 2025, information in relation to 25 grant agreements had been published valued at $55.4 million across the two funding rounds (with two assessment cycles in each round). A potential audit would examine the award of funding was in accordance with the Commonwealth Grant Rules and Principles.

This audit would review the progress of selected components of the Australian Government’s Digital Identity program including the effectiveness of the implementation, design and functionality of the Digital Identity System, roles and responsibilities of stakeholders and the allocation and expenditure of funding, including contract management.

The Digital Identity program is delivered by the Department of Finance (policy and program lead), with Services Australia and the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) delivering critical operational functions. Components of the program include the Digital ID Act 2024, the Identity Exchanges (delivered by Services Australia), myID (the Commonwealth’s Identity Provider, delivered by ATO) and connected services to the system.

The Digital ID Act 2024 and the Digital ID (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Act 2024 commenced on 1 December 2024 and support the expansion of the Australian Government Digital ID System and introduce a voluntary accreditation scheme for digital ID services providers. The Digital ID Regulator is the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission; and the Office of the Information Commissioner as the privacy regulator and Digital ID Data Standards Chair.

This audit would assess the effectiveness of the design and implementation of the Consumer Data Right (CDR).

The CDR is a secure online system that enables consumers to get value from data that is collected about them through the provision of specific goods and services by consenting to that data being shared with trusted accredited third parties. CDR is an economy-wide reform that will be rolled out sector by sector. The CDR has already been rolled out to banking and energy, with non-bank lending to follow as the third sector. The Treasury, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), and Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) are the key agencies leading the CDR initiative. The Treasury leads policy development and determines which sectors should be included in the CDR, while the ACCC focuses on accreditation and compliance of data recipients, and the OAIC handles privacy and data breach notifications. The Data Standards Body develops the technical standards for how data is shared under the CDR, working closely with the Treasury, ACCC, and OAIC.