1358 Items found
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
Contact

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Published: Thursday 29 January 2004
Published

The audit sought to assess how well the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) manages aggressive tax planning. We did this by exploring the nature of aggressive tax planning and the ATO's approach to its management. In the latter context, we looked at:

  • the ATO's previous experience with aggressive tax planning and action on previous significant external reviews, particularly dealing with mass marketed investment schemes;
  • strategy and operations, intelligence gathering and use; and the identification and management of promoters given their significant role in aggressive tax planning.
Entity
Australian Taxation Office
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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Published: Wednesday 28 May 2025
Published

The audit objective was to assess the effectiveness of the framework in place to have a regulatory Ministerial Statement of Expectations and a responding Statement of Intent in place.

Entity
Across Entities
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Published: Thursday 24 June 2004
Published

The objective of this audit was to assess the extent to which PV applications in Australia are processed in accordance with relevant laws and policies, and whether DIMIA employs appropoiate mechanisms to ensure compliance with those laws and policies.

Entity
Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs
Published: Thursday 3 June 2021
Published

The audit objective was to assess the effectiveness of the National Blood Authority’s management of the manufacture and supply of domestic fractionated blood plasma products.

Entity
National Blood Authority
Contact

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Published: Wednesday 10 December 2025
Published

The objective of the audit was to assess whether the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts’ management of service delivery arrangements for the external territories was effective.

Entity
Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications, Sport and the Arts
Contact

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Published: Thursday 26 November 2020
Published

The objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness and value for money to date of the Department of Defence’s acquisition of combat reconnaissance vehicles under project Land 400 Phase 2.

Entity
Department of Defence
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Published: Monday 22 January 2024
Published

The objective of this audit was to assess the effectiveness of Geoscience Australia’s 2020 to 2022 procurement of the Southern Positioning Augmentation Network (SouthPAN).

Entity
Geoscience Australia
Contact

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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: Monday 11 December 2023
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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
Contact

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Published: Thursday 29 October 2020
Published

The objective of this audit was to assess whether the National Disability Insurance Agency has appropriate controls to ensure supports in participant plans are ‘reasonable and necessary’.

Entity
National Disability Insurance Agency
Contact

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Published: Tuesday 18 May 2010
Published

The objective of the audit was to review and assess the use, and management of, automatic exchanges of information under Double Taxation Agreements (DTAs) by the Tax Office.

Entity
Australian Taxation Office
Published: Monday 14 May 2018
Published

The objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness to date of the Department of Defence's (Defence) planning for the mobilisation of its continuous shipbuilding programs in Australia.

Entity
Department of Defence
Contact

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Published: Thursday 14 March 2019
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The objective of this audit was to examine the efficiency of the Australian Transport Safety Bureau’s (ATSB’s) investigation of transport accidents and safety occurrences.

Entity
Australian Transport Safety Bureau
Contact

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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)
Contact

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Published: Tuesday 20 June 2017
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The objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of the governance of the Northern Land Council in fulfilling its responsibilities and obligations under the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976, Native Title Act 1993 and Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013.

Entity
Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet; Northern Land Council
Contact

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Published: Monday 10 November 2025
Published

The audit objective was to assess the effectiveness of the Office’s management of official residences and other assets.

Entity
Office of the Official Secretary to the Governor-General
Contact

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Published: Wednesday 27 June 2018
Published

The objective of this audit was to assess the department’s design, implementation and monitoring of select 2014–15 and 2015–16 Budget measures aimed at achieving $1.2 billion in savings and other benefits.

Entity
Department of Health
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Responded: Tuesday 21 August 2018
Response provided

The Auditor-General responded on 21 August 2018 to correspondence from Dr Jim Chalmers MP and Ms Michelle Rowland MP dated 26 July 2018, requesting that the Auditor-General conduct an assurance review of the financial assumptions underpinning the long-term economics of the NBN. 

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Published: Thursday 12 December 2024
Published

The objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of the management of conflicts of interest by Aboriginal Hostels Limited (AHL), Aboriginal Investment NT and Outback Stores.

Entity
Aboriginal Hostels Limited; Aboriginal Investment NT; Outback Stores Pty Ltd
Contact

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Published: Friday 7 November 2003
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The objective of the audit was to form an opinion on ATSIS' management of the Law and Justice Program, having particular regard to the relative needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. The audit focused primarily on how effectively ATSIS manages and delivers the provision of legal services to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. The audit was desgined to compelement but not to reproduce previous audit and other evaluation activity relevant to the Program.

Entity
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Services
Published: Wednesday 31 August 2016
Published

The audit objective was to examine whether Airservices Australia has effective procurement arrangements in place, with a particular emphasis on whether consultancy contracts entered into with International Centre for Complex Project Management (ICCPM) in association with the OneSKY Australia project were effectively administered.

Entity
Airservices Australia
Contact

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Published: Monday 12 April 2021
Published

The audit objective was to examine whether the Department of Defence implemented a selection of agreed parliamentary committee recommendations and ANAO performance audit recommendations.

Entity
Department of Defence
Contact

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Published: Wednesday 7 June 2023
Published

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

Entity
Central Land Council
Contact

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Published: Tuesday 1 December 2020
Published

The audit objective was to assess the effectiveness of the management of the Australian Public Service (APS) workforce in implementing the Australian Government’s COVID-19 priorities.

Entity
Australian Public Service Commission; Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet
Contact

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Published: Wednesday 27 June 2012
Published

The objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of the ATO’s administration of external debt collection arrangements.

Entity
Australian Taxation Office
Published: Tuesday 21 April 2015
Published

The objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of the arrangements established by the Department of the Environment for the funding and management of the Nimmie-Caira System Enhanced Environmental Water Delivery Project.

Entity
Department of the Environment
Contact

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Published: Tuesday 1 May 2007
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The objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of the management by Defence and the DMO of the procurement of the modernised High Frequency communication capability for the ADF. The audit focussed on Phase 3A of the Project which commenced in the mid 1990's and involved the selection of the Prime Contractor; negotiation of the Prime Contract and the Network Operation and Support Contract; and the development and implementation of the Communication System.

Entity
Defence Materiel Organisation
Published: Thursday 24 May 2018
Published

The objective of the audit was to examine the effectiveness of monitoring and payment arrangements under National Partnership Agreements.

Entity
Across Entities
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Published: Monday 26 June 2023
Published

The objective of this audit was to assess the effectiveness of the administration of grants for the Try, Test and Learn Fund transition projects.

Entity
Department of Social Services
Contact

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Published: Tuesday 15 August 2017
Published

The audit objective was to assess how effectively the selected public sector entities manage risk.

Entity
Department of Employment; Department of Health; Australian Communications and Media Authority; Australian Fisheries Management Authority
Contact

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Published: Tuesday 6 June 2023
Published

The objective of this audit was to examine whether Australian Wool Innovation (AWI) is effectively meeting the requirements of the Statutory Funding Agreement (SFA).

Entity
Australian Wool Innovation
Contact

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Published: Monday 24 June 2024
Published

The objective of the audit was to assess whether the Department of the Treasury (Treasury) had complied with gifts, benefits and hospitality requirements.

Entity
Department of the Treasury
Contact

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Published: Thursday 5 December 2024
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The objective of the audit was to assess whether the Murray–Darling Basin Authority (MDBA) had complied with gifts, benefits and hospitality requirements.

Entity
Murray–Darling Basin Authority
Contact

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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
Contact

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Published: Thursday 19 July 2007
Published

The audit objective was to form an opinion on the effectiveness of DEST's planning, assessment, and Funding Agreements management for the Australian Technical Colleges programme. At the time of the audit fieldwork (prior to the 2007–08 Budget) the Government had announced the establishment of 21 of the then target of 25 colleges. After fieldwork was completed the Government announced its intention to fund an additional three colleges in three new regions.

The criteria for this audit were designed to test whether DEST's management of the programme complied with its plans, procedures and guidelines, with the Act, and better practices for grants administration. For these purposes, the ANAO focused on DEST's:

  • planning for the implementation of the programme;
  • assessment of proposals to establish and operate the colleges; and
  • management of the Funding Agreements.
Entity
Department of Education, Science and Training
Published: Tuesday 28 August 2018
Published

The objective of this audit was to examine the efficiency of the Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity (ACLEI) in detecting, investigating and preventing corrupt conduct.

Entity
Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity
Contact

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Published: Wednesday 24 September 2003
Published

The audit reviewed the recordkeeping frameworks of four large Commonwealth organisations. The objective of the audit was to assess whether recordkeeping policies, systems and procedures were in accordance with relevant Government policies, legislation, accepted standards and recordkeeping principles, and applicable organisational controls.

Entity
Centrelink; Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry; Department of Family and Community Services; Department of Health and Ageing
Published: Monday 24 November 2025
Published

The objective of the audit was to assess whether the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry has effective arrangements to comply with domestic and international travel requirements.

Entity
Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
Contact

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Published: Monday 25 May 2009
Published

The objectives of the audit were to:

  • determine the extent to which government entities complied with the requirement to publish and maintain documents online that were presented to the Parliament;
  • evaluate selected government entities' policies and practices regarding online publishing; and
  • assess AGIMO's policy and guidance in support of online publishing.

To address this objective the audit was conducted in three parts. Firstly, we reviewed a sample of papers tabled between 2000 and 2008 in order to assess their availability online. Next, we examined the online publishing practices of five government entities. These were the: Australian Federal Police (AFP); Department of the House of Representatives (DHR); Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government (Infrastructure); Department of the Treasury (Treasury); and National Archives of Australia (NAA). Finally, we reviewed AGIMO's role in supporting government entities in their online publishing practices.

Entity
Across Agencies
Published: Thursday 6 April 2023
Published

The audit objective was to examine the appropriateness of the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts’ approach to acquiring, managing, and leasing Australian contemporary art in the Artbank collection.

Entity
Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts
Contact

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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
Contact

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Published: Friday 24 June 2022
Published

The audit objective was to examine whether the design and conduct of the procurement process for delivery partners for the Entrepreneurs’ Programme complied with the Commonwealth Procurement Rules, and whether the signed contracts are being appropriately managed.

Entity
Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources
Contact

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Published: Thursday 3 December 2015
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The audit objective was to assess the effectiveness of the Department of Health’s and the Department of Human Services’ management and administration of the Child Dental Benefits Schedule.

Entity
Department of Health; Department of Human Services
Contact

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Published: Wednesday 27 May 2009
Published

The objective of the audit was to examine the effectiveness of DAFF's implementation and administration of the Securing our Fishing Future structural adjustment package industry and community assistance programs.

Entity
Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
Published: Monday 28 June 2021
Published

The objective of this audit was to assess the effectiveness of the administration of the commuter car park projects within the Urban Congestion Fund.

Entity
Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications
Contact

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Published: Monday 12 September 2016
Published

The objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of the Clean Energy Regulator’s crediting and selection of carbon abatement to purchase under the Emissions Reduction Fund.

Entity
Clean Energy Regulator
Contact

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Published: Thursday 28 September 2023
Published

The objective of this audit was to assess the effectiveness of the Department of Defence's planning and administrative arrangements to support the provision of emergency Defence Assistance to the Civil Community (DACC).

Entity
Department of Defence
Contact

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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
Contact

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Published: Wednesday 25 June 2014
Published

The objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of the administration of the Improving School Enrolment and Attendance through Welfare Reform Measure.

Entity
Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, Department of Human Services
Contact

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Published: Wednesday 28 May 2014
Published

The objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of the Department of Health’s and Australian Hearing’s administration of the Community Service Obligations program for hearing services.

Entity
Department of Health, Department of Human Services, Australian Hearing Services
Contact

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Published: Wednesday 27 September 2017
Published

The objective of this audit was to examine whether value for money is being delivered by the Australian Rail Track Corporation’s (ARTC’s) management of the Inland Rail pre‑construction program.

Entity
Australian Rail Track Corporation (ARTC); Department of Infrastructure and Regional Development; Department of Finance
Contact

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Published: Wednesday 26 June 2019
Published

The objective of the audit was to assess whether the Australian Taxation Office and the Department of Agriculture have effectively administered the Farm Management Deposits (FMD) Scheme.

Entity
Department of Agriculture; Australian Taxation Office (ATO); Department of the Treasury
Contact

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Published: Monday 8 December 2025
Published

The objective of the audit was to examine the effectiveness of the procurement and contract management of onshore manufacturing capability to secure supply of antivenoms and vaccines.

Entity
Department of Health and Aged Care; Department of Industry, Science and Resources
Contact

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Published: Tuesday 22 April 2008
Published

The objective of the audit was to review selected Defence public works projects submitted in the three year period ending mid 2007 to assess whether they had been submitted in accordance with the Committee's prevailing requirements for notification and review prior to entering into financial commitments for public works. The audit also examined the procedures applied by Defence to refer public works projects to the Committee, and identified administrative practices that may improve adherence with relevant legislative and administrative referral requirements.

Entity
Department of Defence
Published: Wednesday 30 September 2015
Published

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
Department of Finance; Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet; Department of Social Services; Department of Veterans' Affairs
Contact

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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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Published: Thursday 30 March 2017
Published

The objective of the audit was to assess whether the procurement by the Department of the Environment and Energy of a replacement Antarctic icebreaking vessel will provide value with public resources.

Entity
Department of the Environment and Energy
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Published: Wednesday 18 October 2006
Published

On 9 May 2006, the Auditor-General advised the then Minister for Transport and Regional Services that he would undertake a performance audit and that the specific audit objectives and approach would be established once officers of the Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) had the opportunity to undertake preliminary enquiries with senior staff in Airservices Australia and the Department of Transport and Regional Services (DOTARS). On 31 May 2006, the Auditor-General designated a performance audit under Section 18 of the Auditor-General Act 1997 (Auditor-General Act). The objectives of the performance audit were to: examine the development and administration by Airservices Australia of its contracts with the Solomon Islands Government for upper airspace management; assess the regularity of payments made under the contracts and steps taken by Airservices Australia in respect of any irregularities; and make recommendations for any improvements in the processes employed by Airservices Australia in developing and administering these and similar contractual arrangements.

Entity
Airservices Australia