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Published: Thursday 19 November 2009
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The audit objective was to assess the effectiveness of administrative arrangements for YA, including service delivery. The ANAO assessed DEEWR's and Centrelink's performance against three main criteria:

  • objectives and strategies for the ongoing management and performance measures for YA provide a firm basis for measurement against outcomes (Chapters 2 and 3);
  • YA services delivered are consistent with legislative and policy requirements, (Chapter 4); and
  • monitoring arrangements provide appropriate information for assessing service delivery performance (Chapter 5).
Entity
Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations; Centrelink
Published: Wednesday 30 April 2014
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The audit objective was to assess the effectiveness of the Department of Human Services’ administration of the child support objection review process.

Entity
Department of Human Services; Department of Social Services
Contact

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Published: Tuesday 12 September 2006
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The objective of the audit was to review the operation of the ATO's Tax Agent and Business Portals. In conducting the audit the ANAO examined three key areas: governance – the governance arrangements supporting ongoing management of the Portals; portals development, user satisfaction and realisation of expected benefits – the ATO's processes for involving users in developing the Tax Agent and Business Portals, assessing user satisfaction, and evaluating business benefits arising from uptake of the Portals; and information technology (IT) security and user access controls – the ATO's IT security environment and user access controls supporting the operation of the Tax Agent and Business Portals.

Entity
Australian Taxation Office
Published: Tuesday 16 December 2008
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The audit objective was to assess how well agencies manage their websites. Particular attention was given to the audited agencies' website purposes, risk management and planning, policies, content management procedures, and performance monitoring and reporting. These elements provide the framework for the design, implementation and operation of websites.

Entity
Australian Bureau of Statistics; Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry; Department of Foriegn Affairs and Trade
Published: Thursday 10 December 2020
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The audit examined whether the COVID-19 National Medical Stockpile (NMS) procurement requirement was met through effective planning and governance arrangements.

Entity
Department of Health; Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources
Contact

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Published: Wednesday 24 June 2009
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The audit objective was to assess the effectiveness of the department's administration of general recurrent grants for non-government schools. The audit examined key processes in the department's administration ofgeneral recurrent grants for non-government schools for 2005–08 in accordance with the Schools Assistance (Learning Together—Achievement Through Choice and Opportunity) Act 2004.

Entity
Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
Published: Wednesday 30 November 2011
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The objective of the audit was to assess Customs and Border Protection’s use of risk management to assist in the processing of sea and air cargo imports.

Entity
Australian Customs and Border Protection Service
Published: Wednesday 29 April 2009
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The objective of the audit was to assess the arrangements for oversighting the Action Plan and whether the Plan's new measures have been administered effectively to deliver the intended results.

Entity
Attorney-General's Department; Department of Immigration and Citizenship; Australian Federal Police; Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
Published: Tuesday 21 June 2022
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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: Wednesday 7 May 2014
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The audit objective was to assess the effectiveness of the Therapeutic Goods Administration’s (TGA) application of the Code of Good Manufacturing Practice (Code of GMP) for prescription medicines.

Entity
Department of Health
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Published: Thursday 9 May 2013
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The objective of the audit was to assess the extent to which the Department of the Treasury and the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) have improved the management of tax expenditure estimates by implementing the six recommendations in the 2008 ANAO audit and the three recommendations made by the Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit (JCPAA) following its inquiry.

Entity
Department of the Treasury; Australian Taxation Office
Contact

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Published: Tuesday 15 February 2011
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The objective of the audit was to assess if DBCDE had effectively managed the ABG program, and the extent to which the program was achieving its stated objectives. The audit examined DBCDE's activities supporting the planning, implementation, monitoring and performance reporting for the ABG program from its commencement in April 2007 to June 2010.

Entity
Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy
Published: Wednesday 20 April 2011
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The objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of annual Certificate of Compliance processes for FMA Act agencies. To form a conclusion against the audit objective, the audit considered: Finance’s administration of the Certificate process at a whole-of-government level; selected agencies’ annual Certificate processes; and, the design and impact of the Certificate.

Entity
Across Agencies
Published: Thursday 25 March 2004
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The audit assessed the Commonwealth's administration of the two major elements of the Dairy Industry Adjustment Package; the Dairy Structural Adjustment Program (DSAP) and the supplementary Dairy Assitance Program (SDA). The audit addressed the implementation and delivery of the programs, governance arrangements and the management of the Dairy Structural Adjustment Fund.

Entity
Department of Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry; Dairy Adjustment Package
Published: Thursday 15 April 2010
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The objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of security awareness and training arrangements at selected Australian Government organisations, including whether they addressed selected security issues from the PSM.

Entity
Attorney-General's Department; CrimTrac; Department of Finance and Deregulation; Department of Health and Ageing; National Archives of Australia; National Gallery of Australia
Published: Tuesday 2 June 2015
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The objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s administration of enforceable undertakings.

Entity
Australian Securities and Investments Commission
Contact

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Published: Thursday 19 June 2014
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The audit objective was to assess the effectiveness of DHS’ implementation of initiatives to support the delivery of services to Indigenous Australians.

Entity
Department of Human Services
Contact

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Published: Thursday 8 July 2004
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The audit examined the process of identifying the ADC Weston Creek property for sale and leaseback and the management of the sale process. The objective of the performance audit was to examine the efficiency and effectiveness of the management of the sale process by Defence, including assessing whether the sale and long term leaseback arrangements adequately protect the Commonwealth's interests.

Entity
Department of Defence
Published: Thursday 5 May 2011
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The objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of Department of Infrastructure and Transport’s and the Attorney‐General’s Department’s management of the Aviation and Maritime Security Identification Card (ASIC and MSIC) schemes.

Entity
Attorney General's Department; Department of Infrastructure and Transport
Published: Thursday 23 May 2013
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The objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations’ (DEEWR) role in the delivery of the Children and Family Centre (CFC) component of the National Partnership Agreement on Indigenous Early Childhood Development (IECD NP).

Entity
Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
Contact

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Published: Friday 11 June 2004
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The objectives of this performance audit were to: - review the governance and accountability framework for the Scheme, and - assess the efficiency and effectiveness of Treasury's implementation and management of that framework.

Entity
Department of the Treasury
Published: Friday 17 September 2004
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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: Thursday 25 August 2011
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This audit is the thirteenth in a series of audits that have fulfilled the Senate’s request for the Auditor-General to provide an annual report on agencies’ compliance with the Order, since it was introduced in 2001. The audit objective was to assess the appropriateness of the use and reporting of confidentiality provisions in Australian Government contracts.

Entity
Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA); Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency (DCCEE); Department of Finance and Deregulation; Murray-Darling Basin Authority (MDBA)
Published: Wednesday 28 July 2010
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The objective of the audit was to assess whether:

a) the AGD effectively manages the operation of the NSH; and
b) the AFP and ASIO have effective procedures in place to deal with incoming referrals from the NSH.

Entity
Australian Security Intelligence Organisation; Attorney-General's Department; Australian Federal Police
Published: Thursday 18 September 2014
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The objective of the audit was to assess the appropriateness of the use and reporting of confidentiality provisions in a sample of Australian Government contracts.

Entity
Across Entities
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Published: Thursday 26 June 2014
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The audit objective was to assess the effectiveness of the Department of Health’s management of the National Medical Stockpile.

Entity
Department of Health
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Published: Thursday 19 October 2017
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The objective of this audit was to assess the effectiveness of controls being implemented and/or developed by the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) to ensure National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) access decisions are consistent with legislative and other requirements.

Entity
National Disability Insurance Agency; Department of Human Services
Contact

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Published: Thursday 4 June 2015
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The objective of this audit was to assess the effectiveness of Finance’s administration of travel entitlements provided to Parliamentarians.

Entity
Department of Finance
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Published: Thursday 24 June 2004
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The audit objectives were to assess: the appropriateness of agencies' policies for dealing with requests for information in accordance with the FOI Act; and assess agencies' compliance with the provisions of the FOI Act, in relation to selected requests for information.

Entity
Australian Federal Police; Attorney-General’s Department; Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts; Department of Veterans’ Affairs; Australian Customs Service; Civil Aviation Safety Authority
Published: Thursday 28 June 2018
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The objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of the management of cyber risks by the Department of the Treasury, National Archives of Australia and Geoscience Australia.

Entity
Department of the Treasury; National Archives of Australia; Geoscience Australia
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