2100 Items found
Published: Wednesday 28 January 2009
Published

The objective of this audit was to assess the effectiveness of DEEWR's administration of Job Network outcome payments.

Entity
Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
Published: Monday 24 June 2024
Published

The Procedures for Determining Breaches of the (APS) Code of Conduct must be complied with in determining whether an Australian Public Service (APS) employee has breached the Code of Conduct (the Code) set out in section 13 of the Public Service Act 1999 (PS Act), and in determining what, if any, sanction is to be imposed on an APS employee who has breached the Code of Conduct.

Published: Thursday 19 April 2012
Published

The objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of the AFP’s administration of the Fighting Terrorism at its Source (FTAS) initiative and related measures.

Entity
Australian Federal Police
Responded: Wednesday 23 January 2019
Response provided

The Auditor-General responded on 20 April 2018 to correspondence from Mr Stephen Jones MP dated 26 March 2018, requesting that the Auditor-General conduct an investigation to examine the awarding of a grant under the Regional Jobs and Investment Package program in Tropical North Queensland. The Acting Auditor-General followed-up on 23 January 2019 to advise Mr Jones that an audit of the Regional Jobs and Investment Packages has now commenced.

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Published: Thursday 28 July 2005
Published

The objective of the audit was to provide an independent assurance on the effectiveness of the management of the upgrade of the M113 fleet for the Australian Defence Force (ADF). The audit sought to identify the initial capability requirements and approval process; analyse the contract negotiation process; and examine the management of the project and contracts.

Entity
Department of Defence
Potential audit: 2025-26
Potential

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

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

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

Entity
Department of Social Services; National Indigenous Australians Agency; Attorney-General's Department
Contact

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Potential audit: 2025-26
Potential

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

Entity
Attorney-General's Department
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Published: Friday 22 June 2012
Published

The objective of the audit was to examine the effectiveness of DVA's administration of mental health programs and services to support younger veterans.

Entity
Department of Veterans' Affairs
Published: Thursday 29 September 2005
Published

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

Entity
Across Entities
Published: Thursday 7 November 2013
Published

The objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of the administration of the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) financial industry levies.

Entity
Australian Prudential Regulation Authority; Department of the Treasury
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Published: Thursday 22 December 2005
Published

This audit is a part of the ANAO's protective security audit coverage. The objective of this audit was to determine whether agencies audited had developed and implemented sound IT security management principles and practices supported by an IT security control framework, in accordance with Australian Government policies and guidelines. The audit at each agency examined the framework for the effective management and control of IT security, including the management of IT operational security controls and, where applicable, was based on the Australian Government protective security and information and communications technology (ICT) security guidelines that were current at that time.

Entity
Across Agency
Published: Friday 15 April 2005
Published

The objective of the audit was to evaluate the policies and practices of selected organisations to determine whether they had established sound arrangements for, and maintained effective control over, the administration of security incidents and investigations.

Entity
Australian Crime Commission; Australian Customs Service; Australian Maritime Safety Authority; Child Support Agency; Department of Finance and Administration; Attorney-General’s Department
Responded: Wednesday 9 December 2015
Response provided

The Auditor-General responded on 9 December 2015 to correspondence from the Hon Shayne Neumann MP on 7 September 2015 regarding Indigenous Advancement Strategy.

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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: Thursday 16 August 2007
Published

The objective of this audit was to assess the progress made by DoHA and Medicare Australia (recommendation 3) in addressing the four recommendations from ANAO Audit Report No.50, 2000–01 designed to improve the administration and performance of NCSP.

Entity
Department of Health and Ageing
Published: Tuesday 21 June 2011
Published

The objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of the services delivered through ATO shopfronts to individual and micro enterprise tax clients. Particular emphasis was given to the delivery of services to clients and planning and reporting processes for shopfront services.

Entity
Australian Taxation Office
Published: Tuesday 31 May 2005
Published

The objective of this audit was to the examine action taken by the ATO to improve TFN integrity, particularly through the implementation of the recommendations made in:Report No.37, taking into account any changed circumstances, or new administrative issues, affecting the implementation of those recommendations; and Numbers on the Run, taking into account that the Government has not formally responded to the report at this time.The audit also aimed to identify further opportunities for the ATO to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the TFN system. The report of this audit is necessarily detailed as it considers each of the recommendations and the extent to which they have been implemented.

Entity
Australian Taxation Office
Published: Tuesday 4 August 2009
Published

In two letters dated 19 and 22 June 2009, the Prime Minister requested a performance audit of a range of matters relating to representations to the Treasury regarding automotive finance arrangements for car dealers. In response to these requests, the Auditor-General decided that ANAO would undertake a performance audit under section 18 of the Auditor-General Act 1997 (Auditor-General Act). The audit objective, based on the matters raised in the Prime Minister's correspondence and in the Parliament, was to examine and report on:

  • any representations to the Treasury since October 2008 from all sources regarding automotive finance arrangements for car dealers, including any made in relation to John Grant Motors;
  • the nature of these representations;
  • the manner in which the representations were responded to by officials, having regard to any relevant standards and procedures; and
  • any related administrative matters that came to attention.
Entity
Department of the Treasury; Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet
Published: Thursday 28 October 2004
Published

This audit is the first time that the ANAO has looked at superannuation payments to independent contractors. The audit examined whether Commonwealth organisations were identifying contracts that were wholly or principally for the labour of the contractor and meeting statutory superannuation obligations under the Superannuation (Productivity Benefit) Act 1988.

Entity
Across Entities
Published: Friday 17 September 2004
Published

The objectives of the audit were to assess agency performance in relation to compiling the Internet listings by the Senate Order and the appropriateness of the use of confidentiality in Commonwealth contracts.

Entity
Across Entities
Published: Tuesday 2 March 2004
Published

The audit reviewed the Defence Materiel Organisation's management of the $3.43 billion Wedgetail Airborne Early Warning and Control (AEW&C) project. The Wedgetail project is to provide the Australian Defence Force with an AEW&C capability based on four Boeing 737 AEW&C aircraft and associated supplies and logistic support. At the time of the audit the AEW&C systems were still in their early development phase, and by November 2003, Defence had spent $1.107 billion on the project.

Entity
Department of Defence
Published: Thursday 11 May 2006
Published

The objectives of the audit were to provide assurance that Artbank was effectively meeting its charter of: acquiring art by contemporary artists; expanding the number of public places that Artbank's collection is rented and displayed; and managing its collection and rental scheme. The audit also examined Artbank's governance arrangements, and its programmes for marketing, client development, performance management, budgeting, debt management and also sought client feedback on Artbank's operations via a survey.

Entity
Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry Australia; Department of Communications Information Technology and the Arts
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: Thursday 5 November 2009
Published

The objective of the follow-up audit was to assess the extent to which Airservices Australia, and where relevant, the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government (DITRDLG), have implemented the four ANAO recommendations contained in the previous audit report.

Entity
Airservices Australia; Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government
Published: Monday 7 September 2009
Published

As an element of the arrangements implemented to support the role of the ANAO in reviewing campaigns' compliance with the Guidelines announced on 2 July 2008, the ANAO advised the chair of the JCPAA that the ANAO will provide regular summary reports to Parliament. Section 25 of the Auditor-General's Act 1997 provides for the tabling of such reports.

Entity
Across Agencies
Potential audit: 2025-26
Potential

The audit will assess the effectiveness of the Department of Health, Disability and Ageing’s (Health) and Services Australia’s approach to health provider compliance, including their response to the 2023 Independent Review of Medicare Integrity and Compliance (the Philip Review). The audit will also examine the Professional Services Review Scheme, which investigates referred cases of possible inappropriate practice in relation to the Medicare Benefits Schedule, Child Dental Benefits Schedule (CDBS) and Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS).

Health has policy responsibility for Medicare, the CDBS and the PBS. Through its Health Benefit Compliance Program, Health aims to support the integrity of health benefit claims through prevention, early identification and treatment of incorrect claiming, inappropriate practice and fraud. Auditor-General Report No. 17 2020–21 Managing Health Provider Compliance found that Health’s approach to health provider compliance was partially effective, due in part to a lack of risk-based compliance planning and monitoring of compliance outcomes. The Philip Review made a number of recommendations to Health and Services Australia to strengthen the integrity of the Medicare system and its health provider compliance mechanisms. In the 2023–24 Federal Budget, Health received $29.8 million to establish a taskforce to respond to the Philip Review’s recommendations. In the 2024–25 Budget, Health received $18.1 million over four years to extend and expand the government’s response to the Philip Review.

Entity
Department of Health, Disability and Ageing; Services Australia
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Published: Tuesday 25 May 2004
Published

In the current audit, the objectives were to provide assurance to the Parliament on the adequacy of the measures and plans instituted by Defence to ensure that the combat aircrew workforce meets military preparedness requirements in the future, and to identify possible areas for improvement.

Entity
Department of Defence
Published: Monday 23 January 2006
Published

The audit objective was to assess the effectiveness of DMO's JORN and JFASmaintenance and support arrangements. The audit examined the maintenanceand operation of the JORN and JFAS radars, and their facilities.

Entity
Department of Defence
Published: Tuesday 18 January 2005
Published

The objective of the audit was to examine the investment of public funds by selected entities, including: compliance with relevant legislation, delegations and instructions; the value for money of investment strategies; and reporting of investment activities. Six entities were selected for audit, comprising three FMA Act agencies and three Commonwealth authorities. The six entities had aggregrate investments of $1.64 billion as at 30 June 2004 and realised investment earnings of some $80.4 million during 2003/04.

Entity
Across Entities
Published: Wednesday 25 August 2004
Published

The audit examined the range of support made available to ADF personnel making the transition from military to civilian life, the extent to which the assistance is utilised, the cost to Defence of such assistance and the relevant responsibilities of those who deliver assistance.

Entity
Department of Defence; Department of Veterans' Affairs