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Published: Tuesday 19 December 2017
Published

The objective of the audit was to assess whether the contractual arrangements that have been put in place for the delivery of the Moorebank Intermodal Terminal (MIT) will provide value for money and achieve the Australian Government’s policy objectives for the project.

Entity
Moorebank Intermodal Company Limited; Department of Infrastructure and Regional Development; Department of Finance
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Published: Monday 19 February 2018
Published

The audit objective was to assess whether Defence achieves value for money in the procurement of fuels.

Entity
Department of Defence
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Published: Thursday 1 June 2017
Published

The objective of the audit was to assess the selected entities’ progress in implementing the corporate planning requirements under the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013 and related PGPA Rule 2014.

This audit assessed corporate plans for the 2016–17 reporting period, and complements the report published in August 2016 which assessed corporate plans for the 2015–16 reporting period.

Entity
Comcare; Department of Education and Training; Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet; National Library of Australia
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Published: Wednesday 18 December 2019
Published

The audit assessed the effectiveness of the rural research and development corporations’ management of probity.

Entity
Across Entities
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Published: Tuesday 18 June 2013
Published

The objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of the Department of Veterans’ Affairs’ and the Department of Defence’s administration of the Australian Government’s $55 million support package announced in the May 2010 Budget for former F-111 fuel tank maintenance workers and their families. The audit examined the implementation of the 14 agreed recommendations in the Government Response to the 2009 Parliamentary Inquiry into the F-111 deseal/reseal issues, which formed the basis of the May 2010, F-111 support package.

Entity
Department of Veterans' Affairs; Department of Defence
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Published: Thursday 24 February 2011
Published

The objective of the audit was to examine the Tax Office's administration of the Lost Members Register. In particular, the audit examined the Tax Office's governance arrangements for the LMR; its strategies for managing data quality; and its provision of access to LMR data. The audit also considered how the Tax Office's administration of the LMR has responded to recommendations made in the ANAO's earlier review (Audit Report No.17, 2005–06 Administration of the Superannuation Lost Members Register), relevant changes in funding and legislation supporting the LMR, as well as the Change Program.

Entity
Australian Taxation Office
Published: Wednesday 15 February 2006
Published

The audit examined aspects of the integrity and management of customer data stored on ISIS. In particular, the audit considered measures of data accuracy, completeness and reliability. The scope of the audit also extended to aspects of Centrelink's IT control environment - in particular, controls over data entry.

Entity
Centrelink
Published: Tuesday 5 November 2002
Published

The objective of the audit was to assess whether the controls employed by the Department of Family and Community Services (FACS) and Centrelink to ensure the correctness of payments made under the Age Pension program were effective and efficient. The ANAO focused on:

  • business arrangements between FACS and Centrelink and the Business Assurance Framework;
  • whether the source of error was correctly attributed in customer records assessed by FACS and Centrelink as containing an error in the 2000-01 Age Pension Random Sample Survey:
  • the correctness of Centrelink's processing of reassessments, including Pensioner Entitlements Reviews, Customer Initiated Reassessments and automated reassessments: and
  • progress in implementing the recommendations of previous ANAO audits concerning the preventive quality controls that underpin correct payments.
Entity
Department of Family and Community Services; Centrelink
Published: Thursday 12 November 1998
Published

The objective of the audit was to form an opinion on the administrative effectiveness, efficiency and accountability of the Department of Health and Aged Care's delivery of health services to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population.

Entity
Department of Health and Aged Care
Published: Friday 3 July 1998
Published

The audit reviewed the corporate governance framework of the Australian Electoral Commisson (AEC). The objective of the audit was to review whether the AEC's corporate governance framework was sound.

Entity
Australian Electoral Commission
Published: Wednesday 6 December 2017
Published

Procurement is a significant public sector activity worth $47.4 billion in 2016–17. This information report seeks to provide greater transparency on procurement activity in the Australian public sector. This information report is neither an audit nor an assurance review and presents no conclusions or opinions. The report presents in a variety of ways, including tables and figures, publicly available data from public sector procurement activity.

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Published: Wednesday 8 September 2021
Published

The audit objective was to assess the effectiveness of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation's workforce planning to support key activities.

Entity
Australian Security Intelligence Organisation
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Published: Monday 23 April 2018
Published

The audit objective was to assess entities’ progress in implementing the corporate planning requirement under the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013 and related PGPA Rule 2014.

Entity
Department of the Treasury; Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre; The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation; Office of the Commonwealth Ombudsman
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Published: Wednesday 30 June 2021
Published

This edition of Audit Insights considers the approaches entities are taking to implement parliamentary and ANAO recommendations to improve public administration practices and outcomes. It updates and replaces the edition published in November 2019 and draws on audit reports released since then.

Parliamentary committee inquiries and ANAO performance audits identify risks to the successful delivery of outcomes and generally provide recommendations to address them. Tabling an agreed response to a parliamentary committee recommendation formalises government or entity commitment to the Parliament to implement the agreed action. Similarly, ANAO performance audit reports are prepared for presentation to Parliament and agreement to implement a recommendation made in an ANAO report is therefore a commitment to the Parliament.

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Published: Wednesday 11 November 2020
Published

This edition of Audit Insights summarises key messages from a series of ANAO performance audits assessing performance evaluation frameworks and success measures. It discusses the importance of both in keeping entities accountable and their performance transparent.

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Published: Wednesday 9 November 2016
Published

The audit objective was to assess the effectiveness to date of the management of the approach to transition the disability services market to the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) market arrangements.

Entity
Department of Social Services; National Disability Insurance Agency
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Published: Wednesday 15 April 2015
Published

The audit objective was to assess the effectiveness of the Department of Immigration and Border Protection in delivering high quality interpreting services to its clients.

Entity
Department of Immigration and Border Protection; Department of Social Services
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Published: Friday 4 May 2018
Published

This first e-newsletter of the Commonwealth Auditors General Group was produced by Sir Amyas Morse, UK Comptroller and Auditor General as guest editor, along with the editorial team of the Auditors General of Australia, Fiji, Jamaica and Tanzania. Cybersecurity is the theme for this newsletter, with articles from the Supreme Audit Institutions (SAIs) of Australia, Malta and the UK.

One of the main purposes of the e-newsletter is to share experiences and establish a dialogue based on the discussions that were started at the 23rd Conference of Commonwealth Auditors General in Delhi. For this edition the conversation is around ‘leveraging technology in public audit’, and it draws on international peers experiences and learnings from conducting cybersecurity audits.

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Published: Thursday 9 February 2012
Published

The objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of the Project Wickenby taskforce in making Australia unattractive for international tax fraud and evasion by detecting, deterring and dealing with the abusive use of secrecy havens by Australian taxpayers.

Entity
Australian Taxation Office, Australian Crime Commission and Australian Federal Police
Published: Wednesday 31 August 2016
Published

The objective of the audit was to assess progress in implementing the corporate plan requirement under the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013.

Entity
Across Entities
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Published: Friday 7 May 2021
Published

The objective of this audit was to assess the effectiveness and efficiency of Indigenous Business Australia’s (IBA's) management of its business support and investment activities.

Entity
Indigenous Business Australia
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Responded: Wednesday 26 April 2023
Response provided

The Auditor-General responded on 26 April 2023 to correspondence from the Hon David Coleman MP dated 29 March 2023 and 12 April 2023, requesting that the Auditor-General conduct a full investigation into the design and administration of Round 6 of the Mobile Black Spot Program.

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Published: Monday 11 December 2023
Published

The objective of the audit was to assess whether the design and early implementation of the Australian Government’s response to Recommendation 86 of the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety has been effective.

Entity
Department of Health and Aged Care; Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission
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Published: Monday 27 November 2023
Published

The objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of the establishment of the Workforce Australia Services panel.

Entity
Department of Employment and Workplace Relations
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Published: Wednesday 12 July 2017
Published

The audit objective was to assess whether the Department of Employment effectively designed and monitors the progress of the jobactive program.

Entity
Department of Employment
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Published: Monday 21 September 2020
Published

The objective of this audit was to examine whether the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications exercised appropriate due diligence in its acquisition of the ‘Leppington Triangle’ land for the future development of the Western Sydney Airport.

Entity
Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications
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Published: Tuesday 10 May 2022
Published

The audit examined the effectiveness of the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation’s management of assets involved in the manufacture, production and distribution of nuclear medicines.

Entity
Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation
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Published: Tuesday 25 January 2022
Published

This edition of Audit Insights summarises key messages for all Australian government entities from a series of Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) performance audits that have examined service delivery through other entities. It discusses the importance of establishing appropriate service delivery governance arrangements between entities, understanding risk tolerances and managing service delivery risks, and establishing performance monitoring and measurement arrangements.

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Published: Friday 5 November 2004
Published

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.

Entity
Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs
Published: Friday 16 April 2004
Published

The objectives of the audit were to: assess whether financial delegations associated with the expenditure of public monies were determined, applied and managed in accordance with applicable legislation, Government policy and applicable internal controls; and identify better practices and recommend improvements as necessary to current practices.

Entity
AusAID; Australian Competition and Consumer Commission; ComSuper; Department of the Treasury; Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions; Department of Finance and Administration
Published: Monday 17 September 2001
Published

The objectives of the audit were to determine whether agencies have implemented appropriate risk management strategies for the new banking arrangements, which came into operation on 1 July 1999 and whether cash funds are being managed in accordance with the appropriate legislation, the Commonwealth's agency banking guidance and generally accepted accounting practices. The scope of the audit was restricted to the departmental cash funds management and focused on risk management processes and management accounting controls adopted in the forecasting of cash flows, operation of bank accounts and placement of funds. The audit examined seven agencies, which are not named in the report.

Entity
Across Agency
Published: Tuesday 5 June 2001
Published

The audit was conducted as a joint financial statement and performance audit of DVA's Information Technology (IT) systems. The objective of the financial statement component of the audit was to express an opinion on whether DVA could rely on its IT systems to support production of a reliable set of financial information for the financial statements. The objective of the performance audit component was to determine whether DVA's IT systems outputs adequately met quality and service delivery targets.

Entity
Department of Veterans' Affairs
Published: Wednesday 26 July 2000
Published

Mr P.J. Barrett (AM) - Auditor-General for Australia, presented at the Australian Corporate Lawyers Association and the Australian Institute of Administrative Law Conference on Outsourcing

Published: Thursday 29 June 2000
Published

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 27 October 1997
Published

Mr P.J. Barrett (AM) - Auditor-General for Australia, presented to the National Public Sector Accountants Conference; Sydney

Published: Thursday 28 May 2020
Published

The audit objective was to assess whether the Department of Homes Affairs has appropriately managed the procurement of garrison support and welfare services for offshore processing centres in Nauru and PNG (Manus Island).

Entity
Department of Home Affairs
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Published: Wednesday 21 May 2025
Published

The objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry’s management of the biosecurity workforce.

Entity
Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
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Published: Wednesday 15 March 2017
Published

The audit objective was to re-assess the three entities' compliance with the 'Top Four' mandatory strategies in the Australian Government Information Security Manual (ISM). The audit also aims to examine the typical challenges faced by entities to achieve and maintain their desired ICT security posture.

Entity
Australian Taxation Office; Department of Human Services; Department of Immigration and Border Protection
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Published: Thursday 21 February 2019
Published

The objective of the audit was to examine the extent to which the Department of Human Services (Human Services) has implemented the recommendations made by the Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) in Auditor-General Report No. 37 of 2014–15 Management of Smart Centres’ Centrelink Telephone Services; as well as Human Services’ performance against call wait time and call blocking metrics.

Entity
Department of Human Services
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Published: Thursday 25 February 2016
Published

The objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission in managing compliance with fair trading obligations.

Entity
Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC)
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Published: Wednesday 19 July 2017
Published

The ANAO 2017–18 Corporate Plan is the ANAO's key strategic planning document. It guides our operating environment and sets out how we will deliver on our purpose. The corporate plan is complemented by the annual audit work program which reflects the ANAO's strategy and deliverables for the coming year.

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Published: Monday 28 September 2020
Published

The ANAO conducted separate audits of the Indigenous Advancement Strategy (IAS) Children and Schooling program and the Safety and Wellbeing program, the findings and conclusions of which are presented in this report. The objective of the audits was to assess the effectiveness of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet’s and the National Indigenous Australians Agency’s administration of the IAS Children and Schooling and the Safety and Wellbeing programs.

Entity
National Indigenous Australians Agency
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Published: Wednesday 23 October 2024
Published

The objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of the Department of Health and Aged Care’s fraud control arrangements, with a specific focus on the Indigenous Australians’ Health Programme.

Entity
Department of Health and Aged Care
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Published: Wednesday 24 June 2020
Published

The audit objective was to assess the effectiveness of the Department of Social Services’ arrangements for managing Disability Employment Services provider agreements.

Entity
Department of Social Services
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Published: Tuesday 29 June 2021
Published

The audit objective was to examine the effectiveness of the Australian Skills Quality Authority’s planning and implementation of reform to the regulation of the vocational education and training sector.

Entity
Australian Skills Quality Authority
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Published: Wednesday 24 June 2020
Published

This edition of audit insights outlines key messages from a series of performance audits which examined the effectiveness of fraud control arrangements in three Australian Government departments. In addition to assessing compliance with the mandatory requirements of the 2017 Commonwealth Fraud Control Framework, the audits examined the application of the government’s better practice fraud guidance, and steps taken by the entities to promote a fraud aware culture. The key messages may be relevant for the operations of other Commonwealth entities, as fraud control is a key responsibility in Australian Government administration.

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Published: Thursday 24 October 2019
Published

This is the second e-newsletter of the Commonwealth Auditors General Group. These e-newsletters are a genuine effort to share experiences, challenges and engage in thought-provoking discussions on topics which are common to the fifty-three member countries of the Commonwealth.

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Published: Friday 29 September 2017
Published

The audit objective was to assess the effectiveness of the Department of Communications and the Arts’ contract management of selected telephone universal service obligations.

Entity
Department of Communications and the Arts
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Published: Tuesday 29 October 2024
Published

The objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of the National Health and Medical Research Council’s fraud control arrangements.

Entity
National Health and Medical Research Council
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Published: Thursday 22 May 2025
Published

The objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of the Department of the Treasury’s design and implementation of the Measuring What Matters framework.

Entity
Department of the Treasury
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Published: Monday 13 December 2021
Published

The major projects report (MPR) is an annual review of the Department of Defence’s major defence equipment acquisitions, undertaken at the request of the Parliament’s Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit (JCPAA).

The purpose of the MPR is to provide information and assurance to the Parliament on the performance of selected acquisitions as at 30 June 2021. This is the 14th MPR since its commencement in 2007–08.

Entity
Department of Defence
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Responded: Thursday 12 April 2018
Response provided

The Auditor-General responded on 23 November 2017 to correspondence from Senators Abetz, Paterson and Reynolds dated 27 October 2017, requesting that the Auditor-General undertake an examination of the administration and governance arrangements relating to the Student Services and Amenities Fee (SSAF). Following a request from Senator Abetz on 17 January 2018 for a more detailed response, the Auditor-General followed-up on 5 April 2018.

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Published: Monday 3 March 2025
Published

The purpose of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of Sport Integrity Australia’s management of the National Anti-doping Scheme.

Entity
Sport Integrity Australia
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Published: Thursday 31 March 2022
Published

The audit assessed whether the Streamlining Government Grants Administration Program improved the effective and efficient delivery of grants administration.

Entity
Department of Finance; Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources; Department of Social Services
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Published: Wednesday 30 October 2024
Published

The objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of Australian Skills Quality Authority’s fraud control arrangements as the national regulator of the vocational education and training sector.

Entity
Australian Skills Quality Authority
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Published: Thursday 5 May 2016
Published

The audit objective was to assess the effectiveness of the administration of the Higher Education Loan Program (HELP) debts and repayments.

Entity
Australian Taxation Office (ATO); Department of Education and Training
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Published: Thursday 1 September 2016
Published

The objective of this audit was to assess the effectiveness of the Department of Communications and the Arts’ assessment and selection of base stations for funding under the first round of the Mobile Black Spot Programme.

Entity
Department of Communications and the Arts
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Published: Thursday 1 September 2016
Published

The objective of this audit was to assess the effectiveness of the Department of Immigration and Border Protection’s administration of health services in onshore immigration detention.

Entity
Department of Immigration and Border Protection
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Published: Monday 22 February 2021
Published

The objective of this audit was to assess whether the National Library of Australia and National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA) have implemented effective collection management practices.

Entity
Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications; National Film and Sound Archive; National Library of Australia
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Published: Tuesday 20 November 2018
Published

The objective of the audit was to assess whether the Royal Australian Mint’s strategies for addressing the impacts of declining demand for Australian circulating coins are appropriate and effective.

Entity
Royal Australian Mint
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Responded: Tuesday 1 December 2015
Response provided

The Auditor-General responded on 1 December 2015 to correspondence from Senator Nick Xenophon of 29 October and 5 November 2015, on the advertising campaign promoting Free Trade Agreements in Asia.

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Published: Thursday 2 June 2022
Published

The objective of the audit was to examine the effectiveness of the Department of Social Services' administration of the Cashless Debit Card program, including implementation of the recommendations made in Auditor-General Report No.1 2018–19, The Implementation and Performance of the Cashless Debit Card Trial.

Entity
Services Australia; Department of Social Services
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Published: Wednesday 31 July 2019
Published

The objective of the audit was to assess whether the contract for the acquisition of the Civil Military Air Traffic Management System demonstrably represents value for money.

Entity
Airservices Australia; Department of Defence
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Published: Monday 16 December 2019
Published

The objective of this report is to provide the Auditor-General’s independent assurance over the status of the selected major projects. The status of the selected major projects is reported in the Statement by the Secretary of Defence and the Project Data Summary Sheets (PDSSs) prepared by Defence. Assurance from the ANAO’s review is conveyed in the Independent Assurance Report by the Auditor-General.

Entity
Department of Defence
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Published: Friday 29 July 2016
Published

The Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) 2016-20 Corporate Plan is the primary strategic planning document, and outlines how the ANAO intends to deliver against the purpose over the coming four years.

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Responded: Tuesday 20 January 2015
Response provided

The Auditor-General responded on 20 January 2015 to correspondence from Senator Nick Xenophon of 9 December 2014 and Senator the Hon Kim Carr of 15 January 2015, on the advertising campaign on higher education issues.

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Published: Thursday 13 August 2015
Published

The objective of this audit was to assess the effectiveness of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority’s regulation of permits and approvals within the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park.

Entity
Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority
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Published: Wednesday 15 June 2022
Published

The audit objective was to examine the effectiveness of Snowy Hydro Limited’s governance arrangements for early implementation of Snowy 2.0, the expansion to the Snowy Hydro Scheme.

Entity
Snowy Hydro Limited
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Published: Monday 21 May 2018
Published

The objective of this audit was to assess the effectiveness of the Efficiency through Contestability Programme in supporting entities to improve the efficient delivery of government functions.

Entity
Across Entities
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Published: Tuesday 23 January 2018
Published

The objective of this report is to provide the Auditor‐General’s independent assurance over the status of the selected Major Projects. The status of the selected Major Projects is reported in the Statement by the Secretary of Defence and the Project Data Summary Sheets (PDSSs) prepared by Defence, in accordance with the Guidelines endorsed by the Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit (JCPAA).

Entity
Department of Defence
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Published: Tuesday 13 September 2016
Published

The objective of the audit was to assess whether the Department of Immigration and Border Protection (DIBP) had appropriately managed the procurement of garrison support and welfare services at offshore processing centres in Nauru and Papua New Guinea (Manus Island); and whether the processes adopted met the requirements of the Commonwealth Procurement Rules (CPRs) including consideration and achievement of value for money.

Entity
Department of Immigration and Border Protection
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Published: Thursday 12 December 2019
Published

The objective of this audit was to examine whether the Humanitarian Settlement Program (HSP) is being delivered effectively. 

Entity
Department of Home Affairs
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Published: Thursday 14 January 2021
Published

This edition of Audit Insights summarises key messages for all Australian Government entities from a series of recent Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) performance audits assessing the planning and implementation of regulation activities. It discusses the importance of using available data and intelligence information to develop and execute risk-based regulatory activities targeted in proportion to the impacts of non-compliance.

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Published: Friday 22 November 2019
Published

The Auditor-General, Grant Hehir, delivered a presentation to the 15th Biennial Australasian Council of Public Accounts Committees (ACPAC) Conference held at Parliament House, Canberra, on 7 November 2019. The presentation was titled Maintaining Trust in the Parliamentary Process — PACs and Officers of the Parliament.

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Published: Thursday 19 November 2020
Published

The objective of this audit was to assess whether the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) is effectively preparing for the 2021 Census.

Entity
Australian Bureau of Statistics
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Published: Thursday 7 September 2006
Published

This annual report documents the performance of the Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) in the financial year ending on 30 June 2006. It includes highlights and areas of focus for the coming year; a forward by the Auditor-General; an overview of the report; a report on performance; details about management and accountability, and the financial statement for the year.

Published: Tuesday 7 October 2003
Published

This annual report documents the performance of the Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) in the financial year ending on 30 June 2003. It includes a comment by the Auditor-General; an overview of the report; a report on performance; details about management and accountability, and the financial statement for the year.

Published: Wednesday 17 August 2022
Published

The objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of the planning and implementation of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout.

Entity
Department of Health and Aged Care
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Published: Thursday 5 May 2016
Published

The audit objective was to assess the effectiveness of the Department of Health's and the Department of Human Services' administration of the Radiation Oncology Health Program Grants Scheme.

Entity
Department of Health; Department of Human Services
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Published: Thursday 1 September 2016
Published

The objective of the audit was to examine Defence’s progress since 2007 in introducing into service a fully capable Tiger fleet and cost-effective sustainment arrangements.

Entity
Department of Defence
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Published: Tuesday 19 September 2017
Published

The audit objective was to assess the effectiveness and efficiency of entities’ implementation of the Freedom of Information Act 1982.

Entity
Attorney-General’s Department; Office of the Australian Information Commissioner; Department of Social Services; Department of Veterans' Affairs
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Published: Tuesday 17 January 2017
Published

The audit objective was to assess whether the Department of Immigration and Border Protection adopted sound contract management practices for the delivery of garrison support and welfare services for offshore processing centres in Nauru and Manus Island.

Entity
Department of Immigration and Border Protection
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Published: Thursday 4 July 2019
Published

The objective of this audit was to assess the effectiveness of the management of cyber security risks by three government business enterprises or corporate Commonwealth entities. The entities selected for audit are ASC Pty Ltd, the Australian Postal Corporation and the Reserve Bank of Australia.

Entity
ASC Pty Ltd; Australian Postal Corporation; Reserve Bank of Australia
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Published: Thursday 25 September 2014
Published

The objective of the audit is to assess the effectiveness of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet’s implementation of food security initiatives for remote Indigenous communities.

Entity
Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet
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Published: Tuesday 22 August 2017
Published

The audit objective was to determine whether selected grant programs are being administered efficiently by the Australia Council in relation to suitable comparators. The selected grant programs are collectively known as the Australia Council Grants Program.

Entity
Australia Council; Department of Social Services; National Health and Medical Research Council
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Published: Wednesday 28 June 2017
Published

The Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) publishes two reports annually addressing the outcomes of the financial statement audits of Australian government entities and the Consolidated Financial Statements (CFS) 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 2016–17 financial statements audits of 25 entities including all departments of state and a number of major Australian government entities.

Entity
Across Entities
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Published: Monday 30 November 2020
Published

The objective of this report was to provide the Auditor-General’s independent assurance over the status of the selected major projects. The status of the selected major projects is reported in the Statement by the Secretary of Defence and the Project Data Summary Sheets (PDSSs) prepared by Defence. Assurance from the ANAO’s review is conveyed in the Independent Assurance Report by the Auditor-General.

Entity
Department of Defence
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Published: Tuesday 28 November 2017
Published

The audit objective was to assess whether nbn co limited effectively administered the National Broadband Network Satellite Support Scheme.

Entity
Department of Communications and the Arts; nbn co limited; Department of Finance
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Published: Friday 19 March 2021
Published

The objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of cyber security risk mitigation strategies implemented by selected non-corporate Commonwealth entities to meet mandatory requirements under the Protective Security Policy Framework, and the support provided by the responsible cyber policy and operational entities.

Entity
Across Entities
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Published: Monday 22 January 2018
Published

The audit objective was to assess whether the Australian Electoral Commission appropriately established and managed the contracts for the transportation of completed ballot papers and the Senate scanning solution for the 2016 Federal Election.

Entity
Australian Electoral Commission
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Published: Wednesday 7 March 2018
Published

The objective of this audit was to examine the effectiveness of the Australian Federal Police in managing employee mental health.

Entity
Australian Federal Police (AFP)
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Published: Friday 22 January 2021
Published

The audit objective was to assess the effectiveness of the administration of the National Housing Finance and Investment Corporation (NHFIC).

Entity
National Housing Finance and Investment Corporation
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Published: Thursday 14 June 2018
Published

The Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) publishes two reports annually addressing the outcomes of the financial statement audits of Australian government entities and the Consolidated Financial Statements (CFS) of the Australian Government, to provide the Parliament of Australia with an independent examination of the financial accounting and reporting of public sector entities. This report focused on the results of the interim audit phase, including an assessment of entities’ key internal controls, of the 2017–18 financial statements audits of a range of entities including all departments of state and a number of major Australian government entities.

Entity
Across Entities
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Published: Monday 29 March 2021
Published

The objective of this audit was to assess the efficiency and effectiveness of the Independent Parliamentary Expenses Authority’s administration of parliamentary expenses.

Entity
Independent Parliamentary Expenses Authority
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Published: Wednesday 22 May 2024
Published

The objective of this audit was to assess the effectiveness of the design and award of funding for Round 6 of the Mobile Black Spot Program.

Entity
Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts
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Responded: Friday 3 July 2020
Response provided

The Auditor-General responded on 27 February 2020 to correspondence from senators Larissa Waters and Janet Rice dated 14 February 2020, requesting that the Auditor-General conduct an investigation to examine the decision-making process under the Community Development Grants Programme.

The Auditor-General responded on 3 July 2020 to follow-up correspondence from senators Larissa Waters and Janet Rice dated 9 June 2020, requesting that the Auditor-General reconsider including a review of the decision-making process under the Community Development Grants Programme as part of the ANAO 2020-21 Annual Audit Work Program.

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Published: Tuesday 20 December 2016
Published

The objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of the design and administration of the VET FEE-HELP scheme.

Entity
Department of Education and Training; Australian Skills Quality Authority; Australian Competition and Consumer Commission;
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Published: Wednesday 20 February 2019
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The objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of arrangements for monitoring, evaluating and reporting progress towards Closing the Gap in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander disadvantage.

Entity
Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet; Productivity Commission
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Published: Thursday 17 June 2021
Published

The audit objective was to examine the effectiveness of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority’s regulation of permits and approvals, including its implementation of recommendations from Auditor-General Report No.3 of 2015–16 Regulation of Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Permits and Approvals.

Entity
Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority
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Published: Tuesday 15 August 2023
Published

The objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of the governance of the Northern Land Council under the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976, the Native Title Act 1993 and the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013.

Entity
Northern Land Council
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Responded: Friday 20 August 2021
Response provided

The Auditor-General responded on 20 August 2021 to correspondence from Mr Julian Hill MP dated 26 July 2021, requesting that the Auditor-General conduct an investigation to examine the efficiency, effectiveness, quality and integrity of partner visa processing by the Department of Home Affairs. 

The Auditor-General has received follow-up correspondence from Mr Julian Hill MP dated 27 August 2021.

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Published: Tuesday 21 June 2022
Published

The objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s overseas crisis management and response arrangements in meeting the government’s objectives for returning Australians from overseas in response to the COVID-19 global pandemic.

Entity
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
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Published: Friday 15 March 2002
Published

This was a follow-up of Audit Report No. 40 of 1997-98, Purchase of Hospital Services from State Governments. That audit examined the administration by the Department of Veterans' Affairs of the Purchase of Hospital Services from State Governments. The objective of this audit was to assess the extent to which the Department had implemented the nine recommendations of Report No. 40, taking account of any changed circumstances or administrative issues that the Department identified as affecting their implementation; and to offer continued assurance to the Parliament on the management of the purchase of hospital services.

Entity
Department of Veterans' Affairs
Published: Wednesday 5 March 1997
Published

The objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness and efficiency of Army's management of the move of 1st Brigade to Darwin. The audit criteria directly related to implementation of the project. These criteria addressed planning as well as identification and management of longer-term risks to the success of the project.

Entity
Department of Defence
Published: Wednesday 14 February 1996
Published

Mr P.J. Barrett (AM) - Auditor-General for Australia, presented at the FINEST User Network Annual Conference 1996, Leura, NSW

Published: Thursday 11 April 2024
Published

The objective of this audit was to assess whether the Australian War Memorial is effectively managing the development project.

Entity
Australian War Memorial
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Published: Tuesday 29 November 2022
Published

The audit objective was to examine the effectiveness of the Department of Defence’s administration of the Integrated Investment Program since 2016.

Entity
Department of Defence, Department of Finance
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Published: Wednesday 29 May 2019
Published

The objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of the coordination arrangements of key Australian Government entities operating in Torres Strait.

Entity
Across entities
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Responded: Thursday 29 July 2021
Response provided

The Auditor-General responded on 29 July 2021 to correspondence from Ms Michelle Rowland MP and Senator Kimberley Kitching dated 9 July 2021, requesting that the Auditor-General conduct an investigation to examine NBN Co Limited executive bonuses for the 2019–2020 financial year and the legitimacy of the underlying targets to which the bonuses were linked. 

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Published: Wednesday 14 December 2016
Published

The objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of Defence’s design and implementation of the Base Services contracts.

Entity
Department of Defence
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Responded: Wednesday 23 January 2019
Response provided

The Auditor-General responded on 20 April 2018 to correspondence from the Hon. Dr Mike Kelly MP dated 6 April 2018, requesting an audit of the administration of the Regional Jobs and Investment Packages (RJIP) program, specifically as it relates to the allocation of grant funding between electorates. The Acting Auditor-General followed-up on 23 January 2019 to advise Dr Kelly that an audit of the Regional Jobs and Investment Packages has now commenced.

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Published: Tuesday 27 September 2016
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The audit objective was to assess the effectiveness of the Department of Parliamentary Services’ arrangements for managing contracts and retail licences, including the extent to which the department has implemented recommendations from the previous ANAO audit.

Entity
Department of Parliamentary Services
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Published: Wednesday 18 September 2024
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The objective of this audit is to assess whether the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts effectively managed the approval and administration of the Australian Government’s $2.2 billion funding commitment towards Suburban Rail Loop East.

Entity
Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts; Infrastructure Australia
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Published: Thursday 29 June 2017
Published

The objective of the audit was to assess whether the Department of Health effectively procured services to operate a National Cancer Screening Register.

Entity
Department of Health
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Published: Monday 18 January 2021
Published

The objective of this audit was to assess whether the Australian Maritime Safety Authority is effectively managing the Search and Rescue Aircraft contract.

Entity
Australian Maritime Safety Authority
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Published: Tuesday 9 December 2014
Published

The objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of the Department of the Environment’s administration of the Biodiversity Fund program.

Entity
Department of the Environment
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Responded: Friday 24 August 2018
Response provided

The Auditor-General responded on 24 August 2018 to a request from Mr Ross Vasta MP dated 30 July 2018, asking that the Auditor-General consider correspondence from the Sporting Shooters Association of Australia (Brisbane) dated 12 July 2018. The association is requesting an audit of the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) Spectrum Management & Analysis Section project that installed radio monitoring infrastructure on Mount Petrie. 

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Published: Wednesday 1 May 2024
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The objective of this audit was to assess the effectiveness of NBN Co Limited’s (NBN Co’s) strategies to manage its transition from building to operating the national broadband network.

Entity
NBN Co Limited
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Published: Thursday 19 May 2022
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The objective of this audit was to assess whether the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) has implemented effective arrangements for the planning and conduct of surveillance activities.

Entity
Civil Aviation Safety Authority
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Responded: Friday 29 March 2019
Response provided

The Auditor-General responded on 29 March 2019 to the follow-up correspondence from the Hon. Mark Dreyfus QC MP dated 26 March 2019. Mr Dreyfus requested that the Auditor-General extend his investigation to look at the conduct of a range of parties in relation to the announcement of grants. This is in addition to the request to investigate the conduct of a range of parties in relation to the announcement of the grant to the Yankalilla Bowling Club, which was the subject of the original correspondence dated 24 February 2019. 

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