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Published: Thursday 1 November 2012
Published

The objective of the audit was to assess the management and effectiveness of DCO’s delivery and coordination of support services to ADF families, in particular support services provided when an ADF member is seriously injured or ill, or dies in service.

Entity
Department of Defence, Department of Veterans' Affairs
Published: Tuesday 26 February 2013
Published

The objective of this audit was to assess the extent to which the disaster recovery work plans for Queensland and Victoria were prepared, and appropriate monitoring reports provided, in accordance with the relevant National Partnership Agreement (NPA).

Entity
Department of Regional Australia, Local Government, Arts and Sport
Published: Tuesday 18 December 2012
Published

The audit objective was to assess the effectiveness of FWO’s administration of education and compliance services in relation to the Fair Work Act 2009.

Entity
Office of the Fair Work Ombudsman
Published: Thursday 27 September 2012
Published

To assess the upgrade and sustainment of the F/A-18A/B Hornet fleet, and the sustainment of the newly acquired F/A-18F Super Hornet fleet.

Entity
Department of Defence, Defence Materiel Organisation
Published: Thursday 28 February 2013
Published

The objective of the current audit was to assess the effectiveness of remediation arrangements put in place by Defence and the Defence Materiel Organisation (DMO) to resolve issues impacting on the achievement of the desired lightweight torpedo capability. It focuses on project management and contractual arrangements, and the progress made with platform integration and test and evaluation.

Entity
Department of Defence; Defence Materiel Organisation (DMO)
Published: Tuesday 21 December 2010
Published

The objective of the audit was to assess the administrative effectiveness of FaHCSIA's and IBA's management of the HOIL program. In particular, the audit examined the administrative design of the program, its implementation and progress in achieving the expected results.

Entity
Department of Families, Housing, Community Services & Indigenous Affairs; Indigenous Business Australia
Published: Wednesday 16 December 2009
Published

The objective of the audit was to assess the ACMA's effectiveness in operating, managing and monitoring the Register, including compliance with legislative requirements.

Entity
The Australian Communications and Media Authority
Responded: Thursday 6 August 2015
Response provided

The Auditor-General responded on 6 August 2015 to correspondence from Senator Lee Rhiannon on 22 July 2015 regarding Bronwyn Bishop's use of entitlements to pay $5,000 for a charter flight.

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Published: Thursday 10 March 2005
Published

In view of the large amount of public money being paid to the states in GST revenue, the objective of the audit was to assess the adequacy and effectiveness of processes and procedures used by Treasury in making payments of GST revenues and associated amounts to the States.

Entity
Across Agency
Published: Thursday 21 May 2009
Published

The objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of DIAC's management of MAL. The scope was confined to DIAC's management and use of the system: it did not examine the work of others with an interest in the system, such as security agencies.

Entity
Department of Immigration and Citizenship
Published: Monday 22 December 2003
Published

Directly after the collapse of Ansett in September 2001, most of its estimated 15 000 employees faced the possibility of retrenchment The Government immediately announced the introduction of the Special Employee Entitlements Scheme for Ansett group employees (SEESA) to address two risks facing the employees:

  • the risk-to a certain limit - of a shortfall in their payments of accrued employee entitlements from Ansett and,
  • the risk of delay in their being paid.

The objective of the audit was to determine how efficiently and effectively the two key elements of SEESA were managed: DEWR's management of the mechanism for making SEESA payments and DOTARS' management of the associated Air Passenger Ticket Levy.

Entity
Department of Employment and Workplace Relations; Department of Transport and Regional Services
Published: Wednesday 24 September 2008
Published

The audit objective was to form an opinion on the administrative effectiveness of the arrangements between DEEWR (previously DEWR) and Centrelink for the delivery of working age employment services under the Business Partnership Agreement (BPA).

Entity
Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations; Centrelink
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: Thursday 24 April 2014
Published

The objective of the audit was to examine the effectiveness of the Department of Human Services’ management of Medicare customer data and the integrity of this data.

Entity
Department of Human Services
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Published: Wednesday 26 June 2013
Published

The objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations’ management of the Australian Government’s contribution to the Covenant. The scope of the audit is the Australian Government’s role in the initial establishment of the Covenant and its ongoing contribution through other employment programs.

Entity
Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
Contact

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Published: Thursday 28 August 2003
Published

The audit reviewed the efficiency and effectiveness of the Department of Health and Ageing's (Health's) planning and conduct of the review undertaken to determine the recommendation to the Government on whether or not to exercise the extension option available to the Commonwealth under the Plasma Fractionation Agreement with CSL Limited. The audit was undertaken in response to a recommendation of the Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit.

Entity
Department of Health and Ageing
Published: Thursday 16 May 2013
Published

The audit objective was to assess whether Australian Government agencies were effectively controlling the use of credit cards for official purposes.

Entity
Australian Trade Commission; Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet; Geoscience Australia
Contact

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Published: Wednesday 31 August 2011
Published

The audit objective was to assess the effectiveness of DEEWR’s and FaHCSIA’s administration of the Australian Government’s responsibilities under Element 1 of the National Partnership Agreement on Indigenous Economic Participation (including the NT Jobs Package).

Entity
Across Entities
Published: Thursday 27 January 2005
Published

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

Entity
Health Insurance Commission; Medicare Australia; Human Services
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 15 May 2008
Published

The objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of the NCA's management of its asset portfolio. This included examining its asset management systems and the management of selected contracts that the NCA has in place to maintain specific assets.

Entity
National Capital Authority
Published: Wednesday 18 July 2007
Published

The objective of this audit is to examine DIAC's implementation of the nine recommendations made in the earlier audit. The audit has also taken into account changed circumstances since the original audit. These include a heightened security environment after 11 September 2001 and the results of other relevant ANAO performance audit and financial statement work. The audit also examined ETA decision-making processes to gain assurance about its robustness in a changing risk environment. This issue came to attention in recent audits of visa management processes.

Entity
Department of Immigration and Citizenship
Potential audit: 2025-26
Potential

This audit would assess the effectiveness of Services Australia’s management of automated decision making. Automation can support timely, efficient and consistent decision making. The Commonwealth Ombudsman’s 2025 Better Practice Guide on Automated Decision-Making and the Australian Government’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) Ethics Principles provide entities with guidance on key principles for the design, implementation and monitoring of automated decision-making processes.

The Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme report of 7 July 2023 highlighted risks relating to automation, particularly where the automated processes remove any element of human decision-making and limit a citizen’s ability to challenge the decision. The Australian Government accepted the Royal Commission’s recommendation relating to introducing a consistent legal framework for automated decision-making. In the response to the Privacy Act Review Report released on 28 September 2023, the Australian Government agreed to increase the transparency and integrity of decisions made using automated decision-making that uses personal information.

Entity
Services Australia
Contact

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Potential audit: 2025-26
Potential

This audit would assess to what extent the Australian Rail Track Corporation (ARTC) and its subsidiary Inland Rail Pty Limited has effectively managed its procurement and contracts for Inland Rail.

Inland Rail is a key government infrastructure project. It involves building and operating a freight train line from Brisbane to Melbourne. Construction started in 2018 with sections between Beveridge VIC and Parkes NSW expected to be finished in 2027. Design and approvals works are underway for the Parkes NSW to Ebenezer Qld line. Since 2018, there has been more than $3.8 billion in contracts awarded.

In October 2022, the Australian Government announced an independent review into Inland Rail. This was completed in April 2023 and made 19 recommendations. The government responded to the review in April 2023. One of the independent review’s recommendations was the establishment of a subsidiary of ARTC to deliver the Inland Rail project. Inland Rail Pty Limited (IRPL) was established as a subsidiary of ARTC in July 2023.

Entity
Australian Rail Track Corporation
Contact

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Potential audit: 2025-26
Potential

This audit would assess the effectiveness of the Fraud Fusion Taskforce, to determine how government agencies work together to detect, resolve and prevent fraud and serious organised crime in the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) and other government programs.

The Fraud Fusion Taskforce is a multi-agency partnership working to disrupt fraud and criminal activity, including serious and organised crime. The Fraud Fusion Taskforce commenced in November 2022, co-led by the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) and Services Australia, with 21 other government agencies including the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission, the Australian Federal Police and the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission. In the October 2022–23 Federal Budget $126.3 million was allocated over four years to establish the taskforce. In the 2024–25 Budget additional funding of $23.5 million over two years was provided to Services Australia.

Entity
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Potential audit: 2025-26
Potential

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

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

Entity
Australian Competition and Consumer Commission; Department of the Treasury; Office of the Australian Information Commissioner
Contact

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Published: Friday 8 May 2009
Published

The objective of this audit was to assess Army's progress in addressing the issues previously identified in Defence reviews and ANAO audits as affecting the Army Reserve's capability; and Identify the extent that the Army Reserve is capable of contributing to contemporary Australian Defence Force capability requirements through fulfilling its assigned roles and tasks.

Entity
Department of Defence
Published: Thursday 28 September 2006
Published

The objectives of the audit were to assess agency performance in relation to compiling their Internet contract listings as required by the Senate Order and the appropriateness of the use of confidentiality provisions in Commonwealth contracts. The audit involved a review in seven agencies of the processes used to compile their Internet contract listings and the use of confidentiality provisions in contracts.

Entity
Across Entities
Published: Wednesday 24 October 2012
Published

The objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of FaHCSIA‘s performance of its lead agency role in coordinating whole-of-government commitments to closing the gap in Indigenous disadvantage.

Entity
Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
Published: Thursday 10 November 2011
Published

The objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of the implementation of the NPARIH in the Northern Territory from the perspective of the Australian Government.

Entity
Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs