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Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit

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ANAO 2025-26 Budget Submission

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Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit

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Defence Major Projects Report 2024–25 Proposed Guidelines and Project Selection.

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Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit

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Auditor-General Report No.21 2023–24 Management of the Australian War Memorial’s Development Project

Auditor-General Report No.36 2023–24 Procurement of My Health Record 

Auditor-General Report No.37 2023–24 Administration of the Adult Migrant English Program contracts

Auditor-General Report No.47 2023–24  Defence's management of contracts for the supply of munitions: Part 1

Auditor-General Report No.1 2024–25 Defence's Procurement and Implementation of the myClearance System

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Joint Committee on Public Accounts and Audits

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Private briefing to the JCPAA on the audit reports included in the Inquiry into the administration of Commonwealth regulations

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Auditor-General Report No.42 2021–22 Procurement of Delivery Partners for the Entrepreneurs’ Programme

Auditor-General Report No.5 2022–23 Digital Transformation Agency’s Procurement of ICT-Related Services

Auditor-General Report No.39 2021–22 Overseas Crisis Management and Response

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Joint Committee on Public Accounts and Audits

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2022–23 Defence Major Projects Report
Commonwealth Financial Statements 2022–23
Public sector IT procurements and projects, namely:

  1. Auditor-General Report No.7 202324 Establishment of the Workforce Australia Services Panel, on the digital employment services system
  2. Auditor-General Report No.20 202324 Design and Implementation of the Australian Apprenticeships Incentive System
  3. Auditor-General Report No.12 202324 Administration of the Parliamentary Expenses Management System
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Review of Auditor-General reports

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Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit

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ANAO 2024–25 Budget Submission

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Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit

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Inquiry into Policy and Program Design and Implementation

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Defence Major Projects Report 2023-24 Proposed Guidelines and Project Selection

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Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit

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Inquiry into probity and ethics in the Australian Public Sector

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Defence Major Projects Report 2020–21 and 2021–22

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2022–23 Defence Major Projects Report guidelines and proposed project selections

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Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit

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ANAO October 2022–23 budget submission and the Auditor-General’s batch reports

Published: Thursday 6 February 2025
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This report complements the Interim Report on Key Financial Controls of Major Entities financial statement audit report published in June 2024. It provides a summary of the final results of the audits of the Consolidated Financial Statements for the Australian Government and the financial statements of Australian Government entities for the period ended 30 June 2024. 

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Published: Wednesday 20 December 2017
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This report complements the Interim Report on Key Financial Controls of Major Entities financial statement audit report published in June 2017. It provides a summary of the final results of the audits of the Consolidated Financial Statements for the Australian Government and the financial statements of Australian Government entities for the period ended 30 June 2017.

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Published: Tuesday 14 December 2021
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This report complements the Interim Report on Key Financial Controls of Major Entities financial statement audit report published in June 2021. It provides a summary of the final results of the audits of the Consolidated Financial Statements for the Australian Government and the financial statements of Australian Government entities for the period ended 30 June 2021. 

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Published: Tuesday 17 December 2019
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This report complements the Interim Report on Key Financial Controls of Major Entities financial statement audit report published in June 2019. It provides a summary of the final results of the audits of the Consolidated Financial Statements for the Australian Government and the financial statements of Australian Government entities for the period ended 30 June 2019.

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Published: Wednesday 14 December 2022
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This report complements the Interim Report on Key Financial Controls of Major Entities financial statement audit report published in June 2022. It provides a summary of the final results of the audits of the Consolidated Financial Statements for the Australian Government and the financial statements of Australian Government entities for the period ended 30 June 2022. 

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Published: Monday 17 December 2018
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This report complements the Interim Report on Key Financial Controls of Major Entities financial statement audit report published in June 2018. It provides a summary of the final results of the audits of the Consolidated Financial Statements for the Australian Government and the financial statements of Australian Government entities for the period ended 30 June 2018.

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Responded: Wednesday 23 September 2015
Response provided

The Auditor-General (A/g) responded on 23 September 2015 to correspondence from Alannah MacTiernan MP on 7 September 2015 regarding the Perth Freight Link Project in Western Australia.

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Published: Friday 7 February 2003
Published

The Audit Activity Report: July-December 2002 summarises performance audit, financial audit and other related activities for the ANAO for the period. The key issues arising from the performance audits are summarised against the ANAO themes. The appendices in the report provide a short summary of each of the audits tabled for this period, the audits in progress as at 1 January 2003 and a list of the presentations and papers given by the Auditor-General and ANAO staff.

Entity
Audit Activity Report
Published: Thursday 4 December 2003
Published

An ANAO audit of AQIS' cost-recovery systems was conducted in 2000-01 (Audit Report No 10, 2000-01), following a request from the Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit (JCPAA). That audit aimed to assess the efficiency and effectiveness of the management of AQIS' cost-recovery systems, and provide assurance to Parliament that cost-recoverable programs were identifying and recovering the full costs of services provided, without cross-subsidisation. The ANAO made six recommendations for improving the efficiency and effectiveness of AQIS cost-recovery systems. The JCPAA, at a subsequent hearing, made a further three recommendations. The objective of the follow-up audit was to assess AQIS' implementation of the ANAO and the JCPAA recommendations. The audit also aimed to determine whether implementation of these recommendations, or alternative actions taken to address the issues leading to the recommendations, had improved AQIS' management of its cost-recovery processes.

Entity
Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service
Published: Friday 28 June 2002
Published

The audit followed-up the ANAO's original audit report into the aviation safety regulatory activities of the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) (Audit Report No.19 1999-2000 Aviation Safety Compliance). The objective of the follow-up audit were to determine, in respect of issues addressed by the original audit recommendations, whether CASA has made satisfactory progress to improve its aviation safety surveillance and compliance activities; and whether the introduction of new strategies for further improvement is being appropriately managed.

Entity
Civil Aviation Safety Authority
Published: Thursday 14 February 2002
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This follow-up Audit reviewed the Department of Health and Ageing's implementation of the recommendations of Audit Report No. 36, 1999-2000, Home and Community Care. The objective of the follow-up audit was to assess the extent to which the Department had implemented the nine recommendations of Audit Report No. 36, 1999-2000. The audit examined areas relating to funding, guidance, fees, coordination with other aged and disability care programs, acquittals, accountability and data requirements, and records management.

Entity
Department of Health and Ageing
Published: Thursday 12 February 2004
Published

The report summarises performance audit, financial statement audit and other related activities for the ANAO for the period July to December 2003. The key issues arising from performance audits tabled in this period are summarised against the ANAO themes. The report also summarises financial audits and other financial audit activities conducted by the ANAO during the period July to December 2003. It discusses significant issues such as the: consolidated financial statements and the final budget outcome; harmonisation of Australian Generally accepted accounting practices and Government Finance Statistics; adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards; timing for Financial Statements Preparation; and the audit of the CFS 2002-03.

Entity
ANAO
Published: Thursday 29 April 2004
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The objective of the current audit was to assess Army's progress in implementing the ANAO recommendations and to examine and assess any developments in relation to AIRN since the 1999?2000 audit report and the 2001 JCPAA report. Army updated AIRN policy in 2001 and 2004, and the ANAO has assessed, where appropriate, the implementation of the 1999?2000 audit recommendations for these two policy reissues.

Entity
Department of Defence
Published: Tuesday 3 October 2000
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The objective of the follow-up audit was to report on the action taken by the Australian Customs Service to address the recommendations of the 1996 Audit Report. The audit also reviewed key areas of the Passenger Movement Charge administration identified in the 1996 audit, including the appropriateness of formal arrangements between the ACS and Regular Public Transport airlines and assessed the proposed arrangements being developed by the ACS. The arrangements with RPT airlines were a particular focus in the follow-up report (as they were in the 1996 Audit Report), because of the significance of that category of carrier in revenue terms

Entity
Australian Customs Service
Published: Wednesday 5 March 2003
Published

This audit followed up the ANAO's 2000 performance audit report on retention of military personnel (Audit Report No.35 1999-2000 Retention of Military Personnel), which focused on examining whether ADF personnel management practices to retain personnel were commensurate with the cost of recruiting and training new personnel, or whether more cost- effective steps could be taken to reduce the separation rates of desirable personnel. The objective of the follow-up audit was to assess Defence's implementation of recommendations made in the original audit report and their effectiveness in helping Defence control the flow of trained personnel from the Services.

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Department of Defence
Published: Thursday 17 December 2020
Published

This report complements the Interim Report on Key Financial Controls of Major Entities financial statement audit report published in May 2020. It provides a summary of the final results of the audits of the Consolidated Financial Statements for the Australian Government and the financial statements of Australian Government entities for the period ended 30 June 2020.

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Published: Wednesday 23 October 2002
Published

This benchmarking study was a follow on from ANAO Report No. 14 of 2000-01, Benchmarking the Internal Audit Function, which was published in October 2000. The objective of the study was to obtain and report qualitative and quantitative data on aspects of the internal audit function and compare the public sector internal audit results with equivalent international data to identify better practices and highlight areas for improvement.

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Across Agency
Responded: Thursday 31 October 2024
Response provided

The Auditor-General responded on Thursday 13 July 2023 to correspondence from Senator Jacqui Lambie dated 16 June 2023, requesting that the Auditor-General consider an audit of the Inspector-General of the Australian Defence Force. The Auditor-General provided a follow-up response to Senator Lambie on 4 October 2023.

The Auditor-General received further correspondence from Senator Lambie on 6 October 2023 and 3 November 2023. The Auditor-General provided a follow-up response to Senator Lambie on 15 November 2023.

The Auditor-General received further follow-up correspondence from Senator Lambie on 18 October 2024. The Auditor-General provided a follow-up response to Senator Lambie on 31 October 2024.

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Published: Thursday 9 August 2001
Published

The report summarises the audit and other related activities of the ANAO in the period January to June 2001. Key issues arising from performance audits tabled in this period are summarised against ANAO themes of:

  • corporate governance including human resource management, financial management, and performance information;
  • service delivery including the impact of e-government;
  • procurement and contract management; and
  • information technology.

Appendix 1 of the Activity Report provides a short summary of each of the performance audits tabled between 1 January 2001 and 30 June 2001.

Entity
NO-DEPTS-LISTED
Published: Wednesday 31 August 2016
Published

The Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) publishes two reports annually addressing the outcomes of the financial statement audits of Commonwealth entities, and the Consolidated Financial Statements of the Australian Government, to provide Parliament an independent examination of the financial accounting and reporting of public sector entities. This report focuses on the results of the interim audit phase, including an assessment of entities’ key internal controls, of the 2015–16 financial statements audits of 21 departments and other major General Government Sector (GGS) entities. These entities contribute 95 per cent of GGS revenues and expenses.

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Published: Thursday 9 August 2001
Published

This follow-up audit reviewed the operations of the Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA) which is responsible for ensuring the sustainable use and efficient management of Commonwealth fisheries resources. The objective of this follow-up audit was to assess the extent to which AFMA addressed the issues that gave rise to the recommendations of ANAO Report No.32 1995-96, and the related recommendations of the House of Representatives Standing Committee Report 1997, that were supported by the Government.

The follow-up audit focussed on the key issues identified in the recommendations and grouped these in the themes of:

  • strategic and performance management;
  • management of the advisory process;
  • implementation of fisheries management methods;
  • managing AFMA's environmental responsibilities as they relate to Commonwealth fisheries
    management;
  • compliance, monitoring and enforcement responsibilities; and
  • management of information and research.
Entity
Australian Fisheries and Management Authority
Published: Thursday 29 June 2000
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The objective of this follow-up audit was to assess whether Defence had taken appropriate action on recommendations made in the ANAO's 1995 audit report on Management Audit Branch (MAB), which is responsible for internal audit in Defence, and to assess whether the internal audit function in Defence could be improved.

Entity
Department of Defence
Published: Monday 30 October 1995
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Mr P.J. Barrett (AM) - Auditor-General for Australia, presented to the Institute of Internal Auditors, Annual Directors' Forum, Canberra

Published: Saturday 26 June 2004
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Mr P.J. Barrett (AO) - Auditor-General for Australia, an Occasional Paper

Published: Wednesday 26 April 2000
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Mr P.J. Barrett (AM) - Auditor-General for Australia, presented an Occasional Paper

Published: Tuesday 17 September 2002
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Mr P.J. Barrett (AM) - Auditor-General for Australia, presented at the House of Representatives Occasional Seminar Series

Published: Friday 12 March 2004
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Mr P.J. Barrett (AM) - Auditor-General for Australia, presented to the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India

Published: Friday 16 November 2007
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Mr Ian McPhee - Auditor-General for Australia, presented at the CPA Congress

Published: Saturday 2 November 2002
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Presentation by Mr Alan Greenslade - Executive Director, to the Industry, Research and Develoment Board

Published: Thursday 19 June 2008
Published

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.

Entity
Centrelink; Department of Employment, and Workplace Relations; Department of Families, Housing and Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
Published: Thursday 5 June 2008
Published

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.

Entity
Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
Published: Tuesday 6 April 2004
Published

The objective of this audit was to determine the progress made by the AEC in implementing the ANAO's recommendations, taking into account any changed circumstances, or new administrative issues, affecting implementation of those recommendations.

Entity
Australian Electoral Commission
Published: Monday 9 August 2004
Published

The objective of the follow-up audit was to assess how well the ATO has implemented the recommendations of Audit Report No.3 of 2001-2002, The Australian Taxation Ofiice's Administration of Taxation Rulings. As part of the audit we also considered the ATO's progress in addressing the JCPAA's suggestions resulting from its review of Report No.3 of 2001-2002.

Entity
Australian Taxation Office
Published: Tuesday 19 April 2005
Published

The objective of this audit was to assess the extent to which the recommendations and major findings of the ANAO's 1999 audit of Commonwealth Debt Management have been addressed, and the impact of any changes.

Entity
Australian Office of Financial Management
Published: Monday 16 October 2023
Published

The aim of Insights: Audit Lessons (formerly Audit Insights) is to communicate lessons from our audit work and to make it easier for people working within the Australian public sector to apply those lessons.

This edition of Insights: Audit Lessons is targeted at Australian Government officials who are working in governance roles or who have responsibility for ensuring effective oversight and management of probity. Although it is based on audits of financial regulators, the lessons for managing probity risks can be applied across the public sector.

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  • Accountable authorities should periodically review the functions of audit committees to ensure they are meeting the requirements of the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Rule 2014 to review the appropriateness of systems of risk management and oversight and internal controls. The audit committee charter should be updated as necessary to ensure it remains contemporary.
  • The audit committee can provide valuable assurance to the accountable authority on the implementation of external recommendations, if enabled by the committee charter.
  • Accountable authorities should regularly review the functions of audit committees to ensure they are meeting the requirements of the PGPA Rule to review the appropriateness of systems of risk management and oversight and internal controls. The audit committee charters should then be updated to ensure they remain contemporary.
  • There should be active internal audit and quality review of infrastructure programs to help ensure that administrative systems and processes are functioning as required, including ICT, records management and risk management.
Published: Friday 4 December 2020
Published

An Audit Committee Chairs Forum was held on Friday, 4 December 2020. The venue was the Australian National Audit Office, 38 Sydney Avenue, Forrest ACT.

The text on this page is the communique from the forum. 

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Published: Thursday 20 July 2017
Published

The Audit Committee Chairs Forum is a joint initiative of the Department of Finance and the ANAO and includes the general government and non-general government sector Audit Committee Chairs. This communique covers the outcomes of the discussion at the forum on 7 June 2017 including updates from the Auditor-General and the ANAO, and from the Department of Finance.

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Responded: Monday 29 April 2019
Response provided

The Auditor-General responded on 29 April 2019 to correspondence from the Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources, the Hon David Littleproud MP, dated 23 April 2019, requesting that the audit of purchases of environmental water by the Commonwealth, and on behalf of the Commonwealth, currently listed as a potential audit be brought forward and expanded. 

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Published: Wednesday 20 December 2023
Published

An Audit Committee Chairs Forum was held on Friday 8 December 2023. The text on this page is the communique from the forum.

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Published: Friday 9 December 2022
Published

An Audit Committee Chairs Forum was held at the Hotel Realm on Friday, 9 December 2022. The communique from the forum is now available here.

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Published: Friday 3 December 2021
Published

An Audit Committee Chairs Forum was held on Friday, 3 December 2021. It was both an in-person and virtual event.

The text on this page is the communique from the forum.

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Published: Friday 9 July 2021
Published

An Audit Committee Chairs Forum was held on Friday, 9 July 2021. It was both an in-person and virtual event. 

The text on this page is the communique from the forum. 

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Published: Thursday 2 March 2006
Published

The objective of this follow-up audit was to examine the ATO's implementation of the 20 recommendations in: The Administration of Petroleum Excise Collections (Audit Report No.17, 2001(02); and The Administration of Tobacco Excise (Audit Report No. 55, 2001(02), having regard to any changed circumstances, or new administrative issues, affecting implementation of those recommendations. The audit also aimed to identify scope for improvement in the ATO's administration of petroleum and tobacco excise. Follow-up audits are recognised as an important element of the accountability processes of Commonwealth administration. The Parliament looks to the Auditor-General to report, from time to time, on the extent to which Commonwealth agencies have implemented recommendations of previous audit reports. Follow-up audits keep the Parliament informed of progressive improvements and current challenges in areas of Commonwealth administration that have previously been subject to scrutiny through performance audits.

Entity
Australian Taxation Office
Published: Wednesday 31 March 2004
Published

In April 2002, the ANAO tabled Audit Report No.40 2001-02 Corporate Governance in the Australian Broadcasting Corporation ( the 2002 audit). In August 2003, the ABC submitted a report to the Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit (JCPAA) on its progress in implementing the recommendations from the 2002 audit and the JCPAA report. This follow-up audit examined the ABC's implementation of recommendations from both reports, using the ABC's progress report as its base.

Entity
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Published: Monday 20 October 2003
Published

The audit is a follow-up of ANAO Audit Report No.33 of 1997-98, which assessed the effectiveness and efficiency of the Commonwealth's management of the Great Barrier Reef and made seven recommendations for improvement. The objective of the follow-up audit was to assess the extent to which the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, which is responsible for advising the Commonwealth on the care and developement of the Marine Park, has implemented the recommendations of the earlier audit.

Entity
The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority
Published: Tuesday 23 January 2007
Published

The Department of the Treasury (the Treasury) manages Australia's relations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and various development banks. As of
30 June 2006, the Treasury's administered assets in the IMF and other international financial institutions totalled A$7.1 billion. Liabilities totalled A$4.8 billion. In addition to the liabilities of A$4.8 billion, there were contingent liabilities of A$7.3 billion, comprising uncalled share capital subscriptions.

In October 2002 a performance audit of the Treasury's management of international financial commitments (ANAO Audit Report No.10 of 2002–03 Treasury's Management of International Financial Commitments) was tabled in the Parliament. This audit is a follow-up to that audit. The objective was to assess the progress made by the Treasury in addressing the four major audit findings and two recommendations of the 2002 audit report.

Entity
NO-DEPTS-LISTED
Published: Friday 3 July 2020
Published

An Audit Committee Chairs Forum was held on Friday, 3 July 2020. The forum was held virtually, keeping in line with COVID-19 social distancing rules.

The forum agenda and slides are available in the related documents sections of this events page. The text on this page is the communique from the forum. 

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Published: Wednesday 2 June 1999
Published

The audit is a follow-up to Audit Report 12, 1995-96 Risk Management by Commonwealth Consumer Product Safety Regulators. The objectives of this follow-up audit were to determine the extent to which ANZFA had implemented the agreed recommendations contained in the 1995 Audit Report, and to determine the effectiveness of the implemented recommendations in improving food safety regulation.

Entity
Australian New Zealand Food Authority
Published: Monday 31 July 2000
Published

This audit is a follow-up to ANAO Audit Report No.31 1995-96 Environmental Management of Commonwealth Land: Site Contamination and Pollution Prevention (‘the original audit'). The objectives of the follow-up audit were to determine: the extent to which Defence has implemented the agreed recommendations contained in the original audit (relating to its environmental management and the management of unexploded ordnance (UXO) on non-Commonwealth land) and; the effectiveness of the implemented recommendations in improving the environmental management of Commonwealth land.

Entity
Department of Defence
Published: Tuesday 15 June 2004
Published

The objective of this audit was to follow up DVA's implementation of the recommendations in Audit Report No. 44, 2000-01, Information Technology in the Department of Veterans' Affairs. The ANAO made two recommendations in the report (the second having five parts). The recommendations addressed the monitoring of IT changes; IT performance information; information systems model documentation; and the facilitation of the interpretation of performance information.

Entity
Department of Veterans' Affairs
Published: Friday 5 June 2015
Published

This report outlines the ANAO’s assessment of the internal controls of major entities, including governance arrangements, information systems and control procedures. The findings summarised in this report are the results of the interim phase  of the financial statement audits of 23 major General Government Sector entities that represent some 95 per cent of total General Government Sector revenues and expenses.

Entity
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Published: Thursday 20 June 2002
Published

In 1999-2000, the ANAO conducted an audit in Centrelink to determine whether its planning, monitoring and costing arrangements provided a sound basis to underpin its delivery of quality, cost effective customer services. The report of that audit, Audit Report No. 43 1999-2000 Planning and Monitoring for Cost Effective Service Delivery, Staffing and Funding Arrangements, was tabled in Parliament in May 2000. The objective of this follow-up audit was to assess whether Centrelink had implemented a comprehensive costing system as a basis for planning productivity improvements and accounting for its expenditure of purchaser funds. The ANAO examined Centrelink's current costing system to determine if it reflected the design and implementation characteristics that were outlined in Audit Report No. 43.

Entity
Centrelink
Published: Monday 24 March 2003
Published

This audit followed up the ANAO's 1999 performance audit report on the Commonwealth's planning and response mechanisms to deal with exotic and new endemic pest and emergencies in the animal and plant sectors (Audit Report No 9 1999-2000 Managing Pest and Disease Emergencies). The previous audit made nine recommendations to improve planning and response strategies for emergencies; better coordination; diagnostic support; and appropriate monitoring and surveillance. The objective of the follow-up audit was to assess AFFA's implementation of the recommendations, and whether implementation of these recommendations, or appropriate alternative measures, has improved the Commonwealth's planning and response strategies for pest and disease emergencies. The ANAO also observed and assessed relevant parts of the September 2002 foot and mouth disease simulation, Exercise Minotaur.

Entity
Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry - Australia Department of Agriculture
Published: Friday 20 December 2002
Published

The ANAO assessed agencies' progress in implementing the seven recommendations of Audit Report No.47 of 1998-99, Energy Efficiency in Commonwealth Operations. The Objectives of the follow-up audit were to

(i) asses the extent to which selected Commonwealth agencies have implemented the recommendations of Report No. 47 of 1998-1999, taking account of any changed circumstances or new administrative issues identified as impacting upon implementation of these recommendations; and

(ii) offer continued assurance to the Parliament on the management of Commonwealth agencies' compliance with the Commonwealth energy efficiency requirements, and to identify areas of better practice in energy management by those agencies.

Entity
Across Agency
Published: Wednesday 30 May 2007
Published

The previous audit made ten recommendations to improve Centrelink's review and appeals system. Centrelink agreed to all recommendations. The objective of this follow-up audit was to review Centrelink's progress in implementing the recommendations of Audit Report No.35, Centrelink's Review and Appeals System 2004-05.

Entity
Centrelink
Published: Wednesday 14 June 2006
Published

The objective of this follow-up audit was to review FaCSIA's progress in implementing the recommendations of Audit Report No.17 1999–2000. The focus was whether FaCSIA had maintained or improved its oversight, coordination and administration of the CSHA for both the 1999 CSHA and the 2003 CSHA, in line with the recommendations and findings identified in the previous ANAO audit.

Entity
Department of Families Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
Published: Thursday 20 February 2014
Published

The objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of the Department of Immigration and Border Protection's (DIBP’s) management of the Central Movement Alert List (CMAL) system, having particular regard to the recommendations contained in Audit Report No. 35 of 2008–09.

Entity
Department of Immigration and Border Protection
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Responded: Tuesday 8 September 2015
Response provided

The Auditor-General responded on 8 September 2015 to correspondence from Senator Lee Rhiannon on 10 August 2015 regarding the WestConnex road building project in NSW.

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Published: Friday 21 January 2005
Published

The Audit Activity Report: July to December 2004 summarises the activity and outputs of the Australian National Audit Office for the first half of the 2004-05 reporting year. The Report outlines the key findings of performance and financial control audits, and summarises audits tabled and better practice guides during July to December 2004.

Entity
Audit Activity Report
Published: Wednesday 13 February 2002
Published

The report summarises the audit and other related activities of the ANAO in the period July to December 2001. Key issues arising from performance audits tabled in this period are summarised.

Entity
Audit Activity Report
Published: Tuesday 9 March 1999
Published

This report summarises audit and other related activities of the Australian National Audit Office in the period July to December 1998.

Entity
Audit Activity Report
Published: Wednesday 13 August 2003
Published

The Audit Activity Report: January to June 2003 summarises the activity and outputs of the Australian National Audit Office for the second half of the 2002-03 reporting year. The Report outlines the key findings of performance and financial control audits, and summarises audits tabled and better practice guides published during January to June 2003.

Entity
Australian National Audit Office; Parliament
Published: Thursday 3 February 2000
Published

This report summarises audit and other related activities of the Australian National Audit Office in the period July to December 1999.

Entity
Across Agency
Published: Wednesday 4 March 1998
Published

Mr P.J. Barrett (AM) - Auditor-General for Australia, presented at the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) - Australia SOPAC ?98 The IIA - Australia, South Pacific and Asia Conference

Published: Wednesday 23 May 2001
Published

The audit reviewed the Australian Taxation Office's use of audit of individual taxpayers as part of its approach to encouraging taxpayer compliance. The objective of the audit was to examine the use of audit as an element of the compliance management function within the Individuals Non-Business line of the ATO.

Entity
Australian Taxation Office
Published: Monday 19 August 2002
Published

The report summarises the audit and other related activities of the ANAO in the period January to June 2002. Key issues arising from performance audits tabled in this period are summarised. Appendix 1 of the Activity Report provides a short summary of each of the audits tabled between 1 January 2002 and 30 June 2002.

Entity
Audit Activity Report
Published: Monday 2 March 1998
Published

This report is the second in a series of reports to be tabled at six-monthly intervals. It summarises the audit and other activities of the ANAO in the period July to December 1997.

Entity
Audit Activity Report
Published: Monday 14 August 2000
Published

This report summarises audit and other related activities of the Australian National Audit Office in the period January to June 2000.

Entity
Audit Activity Report
Published: Thursday 12 February 2015
Published

Mr Mr Ian McPhee, AO PSM - Auditor-General for Australia, presented an Australian Country Paper at the 6th ASOSAI Symposium in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Published: Friday 23 August 2002
Published

Mr P.J. Barrett (AM) - Auditor-General for Australia, presentation to Macquarie University

Published: Wednesday 10 October 2001
Published

Mr P.J. Barrett (AM) - Auditor-General for Australia, presented an the Australasian Evaluation Society - International Conference

Published: Friday 13 October 1995
Published

Mr P.J. Barrett (AM) - Auditor-General for Australia, presented to the International Consortium on Governmental Financial Management - Washington

Published: Thursday 4 December 2003
Published

Mr P.J. Barrett (AM) - Auditor-General for Australia, presented at the Chartered Secretaries Australia, Discussion Luncheon, Canberra

Published: Monday 26 March 2001
Published

Mr P.J. Barrett (AM) - Auditor-General for Australia, presented at the Institute of Internal Auditors Australia. South Pacific and Asia Conference SOPAC 2001, Melbourne

Published: Friday 28 September 2001
Published

The objective of this follow-up audit was to assess Austrade's implementation of the recommendations contained in ANAO Report No. 4 of 1998-99 (Client Service Initiatives - Australian Trade Commission (Austrade)), and whether the implementation of the recommendations or appropriate alternative measures has improved the management and delivery of Austrade's client service.

Entity
Australian Trade Commission
Published: Monday 8 October 2001
Published

Mr P.J. Barrett (AM) - Auditor-General for Australia, presented at the Third ACAG Conference, Canberra

Published: Wednesday 21 March 2007
Published

Mr Ian McPhee - Auditor-General for Australia, presented at the ACAG Panel Forum, CPA Australia

Updated: Friday 22 July 2022
Updated

The review assessed the effectiveness of the ANAO’s methodology for conducting audits of other Australian Government entity’s performance statements. See the review.

This page lists status updates about the ANAO's progress on recommendations contained in the review.

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Published: Tuesday 7 August 2018
Published

The Audit Committee Chairs Forum is a joint initiative of the Department of Finance and the ANAO and includes the general government and non-general government sector Audit Committee Chairs. This communique covers the outcomes of the discussion at the forum on 15 June 2018 including updates from the Auditor-General and the ANAO, and from the Department of Finance.

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Potential audit: 2025-26
Potential

The ANAO will conduct a program of audits of entities’ compliance with legislative and Australian Government policy requirements derived from the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013, the Public Service Act 1999 and other legislative and policy frameworks. These audits include a focus on public sector ethics, integrity and probity.

Topics that may be considered for audit include compliance with: requirements to establish audit committees; requirements relating to recruitment and remuneration in the Australian Public Service; requirements related to privacy; and information management requirements.

ANAO audits continue to find that in routine areas of public administration (e.g. record keeping, governance, procurement and risk management), performance consistently falls short. Compliance — not just with mandatory requirements, but also their intent — is a hallmark of integrity, and essential to the craft of public administration.

The selection of entities for these audits will be based on relevance, materiality, representativeness and performance history. Audits may include any Commonwealth entities and companies. The audits would examine the effectiveness of entities’ design, implementation and governance arrangements to ensure compliance with relevant requirements.

Entity
Cross Entity
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Published: Friday 9 August 2024
Published

An Audit Committee Chairs Forum was held on Friday 12 July 2024. The text on this page is the communique from the forum.

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Published: Friday 15 July 2022
Published

An Audit Committee Chairs Forum was held virtually on Friday, 15 July 2022. The text on this page is the communique from the forum.

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Published: Tuesday 15 August 2023
Published

An Audit Committee Chairs Forum was held on Friday 14 July 2023. The communique from the forum is now available here.

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Briefing date
Recipient

Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit 

Topic

Review of recent Auditor-General reports

Published: Wednesday 4 June 2003
Published

This report examined the publication of financial statements and audit reports in the hardcopy and website forms of the annual reports of 117 Commonwealth reporting entities. The audit objective was to determine whether the published financial statements and audit reports agreed in all respects with those that had been certified by the chief-executive or governing body (as appropriate) and the Auditor-General or his delegate. In all but two instances, the reporting period covered was the year ended 30 June 2002.

Entity
Across Agency
Published: Wednesday 10 December 2003
Published

The Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) completed a performance audit of the ATO's use of AUSTRAC data in August 2000, titled The AustralianTaxation Office's Use of AUSTRAC Data, Audit Report No. 7 2000-2001. It found that the ATO had used AUSTRAC data to achieve a significant improvement in the collection of taxation revenue. The ANAO considered that the ATO could build on this success by using AUSTRAC data more effectively at both the strategic and operational levels. The audit made six recommendations. The ATO agreed with all recommendations. The objective of this follow-up performance audit was to assess the ATO's progress in implementing the recommendations of Audit Report No 7 2000-2001, The Australian Taxation Office's Use of AUSTRAC Data.

Entity
Australian Taxation Office
Updated: Friday 28 July 2023
Updated

The objective of this audit was to assess the effectiveness of the ANAO’s attraction, retention and development of capability required to undertake the agency’s core activities. The Independent Auditor report — Performance Audit of Attraction, Development, and Retention of Capability — was tabled in Parliament on 15 August 2022.

This page lists status updates on the ANAO’s progress on recommendations contained in the audit report.

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Published: Friday 22 June 2007
Published

The objective of this audit was to determine the extent to which selected agencies have implemented the two recommendations of the previous audit; and the appropriateness of advice provided by Finance and the ATO. To address this audit objective, the audit assessed:

  • the roles of Finance and the ATO in clarifying: the interaction of the PB and SG Act; the ongoing role of the PB Act; and mechanisms to monitor Australian Government organisations' compliance with the PB Act;
  • the extent to which Finance and the ATO have provided guidance and other support to assist Australian Government organisations manage and meet statutory superannuation obligations for eligible contractors; and
  • whether Australian Government organisations have managed and met statutory superannuation obligations for contractors in past and current contracts.
Entity
NO-DEPTS-LISTED
Published: Friday 14 June 2019
Published

An Audit Committee Chairs Forum was held on Wednesday, 14 June 2019 from 10am until 12:30pm. The venue was the Galambany Centre, Department of Finance, One Canberra Avenue, Forrest ACT. The agenda, slides and communique from the forum are available on this events page.

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Published: Friday 15 June 2001
Published

This audit followed up the ANAO's 1997 performance audit report on ADF health services (Audit Report No.34 1996-97 Australian Defence Force Health Services), which focused on the delivery of non-operational health services to entitled members. The objective of the follow-up audit was to assess Defence's implementation of recommendations made in the original audit report and their effectiveness in improving ADF health services.

Entity
Department of Defence
Updated: Friday 22 July 2022
Updated

Section 41 of the Auditor-General Act 1997 establishes the position of the Independent Auditor. The Independent Auditor report, Review of Cyber Security, was tabled in Parliament on 4 December 2017.

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Published: Monday 16 September 2002
Published

In 1997-98, the ANAO audited the Child Support Agency (CSA), making 12 recommendations to improve its operational performance. A related report by the Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit supported the general findings of the ANAO audit and reinforced three ANAO recommendations in its own report. The audit examined client service in the CSA by following-up the CSA's implementation of the recommendations contained in these two previous reports and more broadly assessing whether the CSA had improved the management and delivery of its client service sine the previous ANAO audit.

Entity
Department of Family and Community Services
Published: Wednesday 5 December 2018
Published

An Audit Committee Chairs Forum was held on Wednesday, 5 December 2018 from 10am until 12:30pm. The venue was the Galambany Centre, Department of Finance, One Canberra Avenue, Forrest ACT. The slides from the forum are now available. 

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Published: Friday 6 December 2019
Published

An Audit Committee Chairs Forum was held on Friday, 6 December 2019 from 11am until 1:30pm. The venue was the Galambany Centre, Department of Finance, One Canberra Avenue, Forrest ACT.

The agenda and slides are now available in the related documents section of this events page. 

 

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Published: Wednesday 7 February 2001
Published

The report summarises the audit and other related activities of the ANAO in the period June to December 2000. It provides a consolidated report of the ANAO's integrated audit products tabled during the period. Key issues examined in the ANAO's performance audit activity in the period were:

  • risk management in a corporate governance framework;
  • outsourcing and asset sales;
  • contract management;
  • service delivery;
  • data management/management information systems; and
  • legislative implementation.

The report also summarised the results of a report summarising the final results of the audits of the financial statements of Commonwealth entities; and dealt with issues regarding financial management issues, controls and processes arising from the financial audit activities conducted during the period.

Entity
Audit Activity Report
Published: Monday 4 December 2000
Published

The objective of this follow-up audit was to provide assurance to the Parliament on the cost-effectiveness of public sector travel by:

  • ascertaining the degree of acceptance, and the extent of implementation, of the previous audit recommendations and better practice principles; and
  • establishing whether organisations were managing travel effectively, taking into consideration recommendations and findings detailed in the above Audit Reports and the Better Practice Guide Public Sector Travel.
Entity
Across Agency
Published: Monday 13 October 1997
Published

This summary audit report brings together the results of the audits of the financial statements of all Commonwealth organisations (that is, agencies and statutory authorities), and is provided to the Parliament to assist in its scrutiny of annual reports and in the consideration of each organisation's financial statements.

Entity
Across Entities
Published: Thursday 30 November 1995
Published

This summary audit report brings together the results of the audits of the financial statements of all Commonwealth organisations (that is, agencies and statutory authorities), and is provided to the Parliament to assist in its scrutiny of annual reports and in the consideration of each organisation's financial statements.

Entity
Across Agency
Published: Tuesday 25 July 2000
Published

The follow-up audit, Drug Evaluation by the Therapeutic Goods Administration [TGA], reviewed the extent to which TGA had implemented recommendations made by the ANAO in 1996 on the efficiency, effectiveness and accountability of TGA's evaluation and approval of prescription drugs for public use. This follow-up audit was conducted because of the importance of effective drug evaluation processes to public health.

Entity
Department of Health and Aged Care; Therapeutic Goods Administration
Published: Monday 23 August 2021
Published

The objective of this audit was to assess the effectiveness of the ANAO’s internal budgeting and forecasting processes and practices. View the audit.

This page lists status updates about the ANAO's progress on recommendations contained in the audit.

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Published: Wednesday 13 December 2017
Published

This edition of audit insights draws together key learnings from Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) performance audit reports tabled in the Parliament of Australia from July to September 2017. It provides insights into entities’ operational implementation of government policies and frameworks, drawing on a number of common findings and key learnings on policy and program design, governance, performance and impact measurement, and risk management.

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