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Published: Thursday 10 December 2020
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The objective of the audit was to assess whether Services Australia had effectively managed risks related to the rapid preparation for and delivery of COVID-19 economic response measures.

Entity
Services Australia
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Published: Thursday 25 June 2020
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The objective of this audit was to assess the effectiveness of the Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment’s administration of referrals, assessments and approvals of controlled actions under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999.

Entity
Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment
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Published: Monday 18 March 2019
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The audit objective was to examine whether the Department of Defence has effective and efficient sustainment arrangements for the Royal Australian Navy’s fleet of eight ANZAC class frigates.

Entity
Department of Defence
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Published: Tuesday 28 February 2017
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The objective of this report was to provide the Auditor‐General’s independent assurance over the status of the selected Major Projects, as reflected 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.

Entity
Department of Defence
Published: Friday 11 May 2018
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The objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of the Australian Government’s personnel security arrangements for mitigating insider threats.

Entity
Across Entities
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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: Friday 17 June 2022
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The objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of the governance board in the Commonwealth Superannuation Corporation.

Entity
Commonwealth Superannuation Corporation
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Responded: Friday 12 July 2019
Response provided

The Auditor-General responded on 12 July 2019 to correspondence from Senator Mehreen Faruqi dated 3 July 2019, requesting that the Auditor-General conduct an investigation to examine the Live Exports Branch of the Department of Agriculture. The request for audit related to allegations of mismanagement and falsification of official records.

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Published: Thursday 29 June 2017
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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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Responded: Friday 26 March 2021
Response provided

The Auditor-General responded on 23 December 2020 to correspondence from the Hon Dr Andrew Leigh MP dated 8 December 2020, requesting that the Auditor-General conduct an investigation to examine the JobKeeper scheme. The Auditor-General provided a follow-up response on 8 February 2021, advising the Hon Dr Andrew Leigh MP that a performance audit Administration of the JobKeeper Scheme has commenced.

The Auditor-General responded on 26 March 2021 to follow-up correspondence from the Hon Dr Andrew Leigh MP dated 2 March 2021, requesting that the Auditor-General explore specific aspects of the JobKeeper scheme. 

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Published: Thursday 17 June 2021
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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 23 May 2017
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The audit objective was to assess the effectiveness of the management of underperformance in the Australian Public Service (APS) and identify opportunities for improvement.

Entity
Across Entities
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Published: Wednesday 31 August 2016
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The audit objective was to assess the effectiveness of the Australian Taxation Office's External Compliance Assurance Process pilot conducted with large business taxpayers.

Entity
Australian Taxation Office
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Published: Thursday 27 June 2024
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The objective of this audit was to assess the effectiveness of the Australian Research Council’s (ARC) management of corporate credit cards.

Entity
Australian Research Council
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Published: Tuesday 21 November 2017
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The Commonwealth Parliament regulates Australian Government entities through the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act  — the PGPA Act. The Act establishes a system of governance, performance and accountability for resources managed by entities. This edition of audit insights looks at recent ANAO audit activity reviewing entities implementation of key components of the PGPA: risk management, corporate planning and performance statements.

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Published: Thursday 30 March 2017
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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: Monday 3 March 2025
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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: Wednesday 14 June 2023
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The objective of this audit was to examine whether procurements of office furniture have been consistent with the Commonwealth Procurement Rules and are achieved value for money.

Entity
Department of Home Affairs; Services Australia
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Published: Tuesday 30 April 2019
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The objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of the governance board in the Australian Institute of Marine Science.

Entity
Australian Institute of Marine Science
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Published: Tuesday 28 February 2017
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The objective of the audit was to assess the Department of Human Services' and the Department of Social Services’ management of selected fraud prevention and compliance Budget measures.

Entity
Department of Human Services; Department of Social Services
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Published: Tuesday 1 December 2020
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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
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Published: Monday 24 June 2024
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The audit objective was to assess the effectiveness of the Department of Defence's (Defence) management of advertising campaigns for Australian Defence Force recruitment.

Entity
Department of Defence
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Published: Monday 11 November 2024
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The objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of the operations of the boards of four corporate Commonwealth entities in managing conflicts of interest.

Entity
Across entities
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Published: Wednesday 12 June 2024
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The objective of this audit was to assess the effectiveness of the Australian Digital Health Agency’s (ADHA) procurement relating to My Health Record system infrastructure.

Entity
Australian Digital Health Agency
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Published: Wednesday 7 June 2023
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The objective of this audit was to assess whether the Department of Home Affairs’ procurement process for the Permissions Capability employed open and effective competition and achieved value for money, consistent with the Commonwealth Procurement Rules.

Entity
Department of Home Affairs
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Published: Monday 7 December 2020
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The objective of the audit was to examine the Department of Defence’s (Defence's) implementation of agreed recommendations made in Auditor-General Report No. 38 of 2017–18 Mitigating Insider Threats through Personnel Security and the related report provided to ministers under section 37(5) of the Auditor-General Act 1997, and by the Parliament’s Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit (JCPAA) in Report 479 of 2019 Australian Government Security Arrangements.

Entity
Department of Defence
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Published: Thursday 11 April 2024
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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: Thursday 17 September 2020
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The objective of this audit was to examine the effectiveness of the Australian Electoral Commission’s management of financial disclosures required under Part XX of the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918, including the extent to which the AEC is achieving accurate and complete financial disclosures.

Entity
Australian Electoral Commission
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Published: Tuesday 30 April 2024
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The objective of this audit was to assess the effectiveness of the Clean Energy Regulator’s (CER) issuing, compliance and contracting activities related to Australian Carbon Credit Units.

Entity
Clean Energy Regulator
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Published: Tuesday 23 January 2018
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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 28 November 2017
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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: Tuesday 18 June 2024
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The objective of this audit was to assess whether the Federal Court of Australia is effectively managing the use of corporate credit cards for official purposes in accordance with legislative and entity requirements.

Entity
Federal Court of Australia
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Published: Thursday 19 June 2025
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The objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of Creative Australia’s fraud and corruption control arrangements.

Entity
Creative Australia
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Published: Tuesday 19 December 2017
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The objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of Medicare electronic claiming arrangements, including an assessment of the extent to which claiming and processing efficiencies for the Government, health professionals and Medicare customers have been achieved.

Entity
Department of Human Services
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Published: Thursday 30 April 2015
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The objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of the Attorney-General’s Department’s administration of the terms of the Natural Disaster Relief and Recovery Arrangements Ministerial determination.

Entity
Attorney-General's Department; Emergency Management Australia
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Published: Tuesday 28 January 2020
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The objective of the audit was to examine the effectiveness and appropriateness of the Department of Defence's management of its public communications and media activities.

Entity
Department of Defence
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Published: Wednesday 28 June 2023
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This audit examined the effectiveness of the National Archives of Australia’s implementation of the Building Trust policy and selected entities’ management of information assets (records, information and data).

Entity
Australian National Maritime Museum; National Archives of Australia; Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet
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Published: Monday 27 March 2017
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The objective of this audit was to assess the effectiveness of Army’s workforce planning.

Entity
Department of Defence
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Published: Thursday 9 February 2017
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The audit objective was to examine the effectiveness of the Australian Taxation Office's monitoring and implementation of recommendations about its administration made by the ANAO and parliamentary committees

Entity
Australian Taxation Office
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Published: Thursday 1 June 2017
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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: Friday 26 April 2019
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The objective of this audit was to examine the effectiveness of the governance arrangements for the Special Broadcasting Service Corporation (SBS).

Entity
Special Broadcasting Service Corporation
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Updated: Monday 15 May 2023
Updated

The Australian National Audit Office and the ACT Audit Office, sponsored by the Australasian Council of Auditors-General (ACAG), hosted IMPACT 2023, the International Meeting of Performance Audit Critical Thinkers. The meeting was held 19–20 April 2023 in Canberra, Australia.

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Published: Wednesday 17 December 2014
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The report objective is to provide the Auditor-General’s independent assurance over the status of 30 selected Major Projects, as reflected in the Statement by the Chief Executive Officer Defence Materiel Organisation (DMO), and the Project Data Summary Sheets prepared by the DMO, in accordance with the Guidelines endorsed by the Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit.

Entity
Defence Materiel Organisation
Published: Tuesday 8 June 2021
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The objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of the Australian Federal Police’s framework to ensure the lawful exercise of powers in accordance with applicable legislation.

Entity
Australian Federal Police
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Published: Thursday 22 June 2017
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The objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of the Department of Health's strategies for managing a communicable disease emergency.

Entity
Department of Health
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Published: Monday 22 June 2020
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The objective of this audit was to assess the effectiveness of the Department of Home Affairs' fraud control arrangements.

Entity
Department of Home Affairs
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Published: Monday 7 November 2016
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The objective of this audit was to examine the effectiveness of the Department of Social Services’ administration of NRAS allocations; processing of market rent valuations, statements of compliance and incentive payments; and the supporting business systems and processes.

Entity
Department of Social Services
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Published: Tuesday 21 June 2022
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The audit objective was to assess the effectiveness of the Department of Home Affairs’ administration and regulation of critical infrastructure protection policy.

Entity
Department of Home Affairs
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Published: Tuesday 14 May 2019
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The objective of this audit was to assess whether selected regulatory entities effectively apply the cost recovery principles of the Australian Government’s cost recovery framework. The selected regulatory entities were the Department of Agriculture and Water Resources, the Australian Maritime Safety Authority, and the Department of Health (Therapeutic Goods Administration).

Entity
Department of Agriculture and Water Resources; Australian Maritime Safety Authority; Department of Health (Therapeutic Goods Administration)
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Published: Wednesday 15 June 2022
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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: Tuesday 25 June 2024
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The audit objective was to assess whether the Department of Defence's (Defence's) arrangements for the operation and maintenance of the Mulwala and Benalla facilities beyond June 2020 were established through appropriate processes and in accordance with the Commonwealth Procurement Rules (CPRs).

Entity
Department of Defence
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Published: Tuesday 15 August 2023
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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: Monday 24 June 2024
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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
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Published: Thursday 24 March 2022
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The audit objective was to assess the effectiveness of the management of human biosecurity for international air travellers during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Entity
Across Entities
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Published: Monday 3 June 2024
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The objective of this audit was to assess the effectiveness of the Australian Maritime Safety Authority’s (AMSA) management of the Aids to Navigation maintenance procurement.

Entity
Australian Maritime Safety Authority
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Published: Wednesday 24 May 2023
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The objective of this audit was to assess the effectiveness of the governance of the Tiwi Land Council under the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976 and the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013.

Entity
Tiwi Land Council
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Published: Wednesday 21 May 2025
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The audit objective was to assess the effectiveness of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet’s administration of the IA framework to enable well-informed and transparent Australian Government decision-making.

Entity
Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet
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Published: Monday 14 December 2015
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The objective of the audit was to assess whether appropriate steps were taken to protect the Commonwealth’s interests and obtain value for money in respect to the:

  • approval of $1.5 billion in Commonwealth funding for stage one of the East West Link project, and the June 2014 payment of $500 million of this funding; and
  • approval of $1.5 billion in Commonwealth funding for stage two of the East West Link project, and the June 2014 payment of $1 billion of this funding.
Entity
Department of Infrastructure and Regional Development; Infrastructure Australia; Department of the Treasury; Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet; and Department of Finance.
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Published: Tuesday 31 March 2020
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The objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission’s (ACNC’s) regulation of charities.

Entity
Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission; Australian Taxation Office
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Published: Thursday 16 June 2022
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The objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of the governance board in the Australian Film, Television and Radio School.

Entity
Australian Film, Television and Radio School
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