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Published: Wednesday 10 March 2010
Published

The objective of this audit was to examine the effectiveness of Defence and the DMO's management of procurement and through life support arrangements to meet the explosive ordnance requirements of the ADF, particularly the non-guided munitions requirements of Army. This included a review of the progress of Defence and the DMO in implementing the recommendations of ANAO Audit Report No.40 2005–06.

Entity
Department of Defence; Defence Materiel Organisation
Published: Thursday 10 February 2011
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The audit examined key aspects of the first four tenders for the RtB program. These tenders provided coverage across the Basin and resulted in expenditure in excess of $1 billion. The 2008–09 tenders included the largest single purchase under the program—$303 million to Twynam Agricultural Group. The audit also examined the Commonwealth's contribution to the purchase of Toorale station, the only purchase outside a tender process.

Entity
Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities
Published: Wednesday 29 June 2005
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The objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of Health's administration of the National Respite for Carers Program.

Entity
Department of Health and Ageing
Published: Wednesday 25 June 2003
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The audit reviewed the Australian Taxation Office's administration of the payment of tax by non-residents. The audit objectives were to:

  • provide Parliament with assurance about how efficiently and effectively the ATO administers the payment of tax in respect of non-residents;
  • identify any scope for more effective and efficient administration of the function; and
  • identify any opportunities for the cost-effective collection of additional revenue.
Entity
Australian Taxation Office
Published: Tuesday 23 June 2009
Published

The objective of this audit was to assess whether selected organisations had effective security risk management programs, including whether a selection of protective security risk treatment controls was working as designed.

Entity
Across Agencies
Published: Wednesday 27 June 2001
Published

This performance audit is the first property management audit that the ANAO has conducted since the FMA Act came into effect in 1997, with the associated devolution of responsibility to agency heads. The audit included coverage of office accommodation currently leased in Australia from the private sector. This office accommodation was housing the functions and activities of clerical, technical or professional staff, including conference and meeting rooms and ministerial suites but excluding basements, car parks, theatrettes, and cafeterias.

Entity
Across Agency
Published: Tuesday 20 December 2011
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The objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of the management of risks arising from the use of PSDs in selected Australian Government agencies. The PSDs included within the scope of this audit were: USB flash drives; CDs and DVDs; external hard drives; laptop computers and smartphones.

Entity
Across agencies
Published: Monday 30 June 2003
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The objectives of the audit was to examine the effectiveness and efficiency of DIMIA's decision-making processes and management systems for delivering the parent and partner aspects of the family stream of the Migration Program.

The family stream of Australia's Migration Program enables the reunion of immediate family members of Australian citizens, permanent residents or eligible New Zealand citizens. It consists of four main categories;

  • Partner;
  • Child;
  • Parent; and
  • Other family.
Entity
Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs
Published: Thursday 3 April 2003
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The objective of this audit was to assess whether DFAT had effective processes for issuing passports in Australia. In particular, the audit focussed on whether DFAT had effective strategies for managing passport services; provided quality client service; and had effective and secure processes for passport issue to entitled persons.

Entity
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Published: Thursday 27 January 2005
Published

Medicare is Australia's universal health insurance scheme. Underpinning Medicare is one of Australia's largest and more complex computer databases the Medicare enrolment database. At the end of 2004 the Medicare enrolment database contained information on over 24 million individuals. This audit examines the quality of data stored on that database and how the Health Insurance Commission (HIC) manages the data.

Entity
Health Insurance Commission; Medicare Australia; Human Services