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Speeches and papers
Published: Wednesday 14 October 2009
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Different Perspectives of Public Sector Governance, Asia and Australia

Mr Ian McPhee - Auditor-General for Australia, presented at the Australian Institute of Company Directors Public Sector Governance Conference

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Speeches and papers
Published: Friday 11 March 2011
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Public Sector Accountability

Mr Ian McPhee, PSM - Auditor-General for Australia, presented at the CPA Australia, International Public Sector Convention, Melbourne

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Speeches and papers
Published: Friday 20 September 2002
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Expectation, and Perception, of Better Practice Corporate Governance in the Public Sector from an Audit Perspective

Mr P.J. Barrett (AM) - Auditor-General for Australia, presented at the CPA Australia's Government Business Symposium, Melbourne

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Speeches and papers
Published: Wednesday 21 March 2001
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Trends in Public Sector Contracting - Some Issues and Better Practices

Mr P.J. Barrett (AM) - Auditor-General for Australia, presented at the Australian Corporate Lawyers Association, Old Parliament House, Canberra

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Speeches and papers
Published: Thursday 17 August 2006
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Financial Management in the Public Sector

Mr Ian McPhee - Auditor-General for Australia, presented at the CPA Australia Public Sectore Finance and Management Conference

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Performance audit  (Auditor-General Report No. 36 of 2017–18)
Published: Monday 23 April 2018
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Corporate Planning in the Australian Public Sector 2017–18

The audit objective was to assess entities’ progress in implementing the corporate planning requirement under the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013 and related PGPA Rule 2014.

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Department of the Treasury; Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre; The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation; Office of the Commonwealth Ombudsman
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Governance
Sector
Attorney-General's
Industry
Prime Minister & Cabinet
Science
Taxation
Treasury
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Speeches and papers
Published: Monday 20 September 2004
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ANAO's Role in Encouraging Better Public Sector Governance

Mr P.J. Barrett (AM) - Auditor-General for Australia, Address to ANZSOG Students at ANU

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Performance audit  (Auditor-General Report No. 54 of 2016–17)
Published: Thursday 1 June 2017
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Corporate Planning in the Australian Public Sector 2016–17

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.

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Comcare; Department of Education and Training; Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet; National Library of Australia
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Education
Finance
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Speeches and papers
Published: Wednesday 21 April 2010
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Contributing to the Setting of Accounting Standards for the Public Sector

Mr Ian McPhee - Auditor-General for Australia, presented at the CPA Australia - CFO Public Sector Lunch

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Speeches and papers
Published: Thursday 13 February 1997
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Whither Accountability in a Changing Public Sector Environment

Mr P.J. Barrett (AM) - Auditor-General for Australia, presented to the Central Agency Broker Seminar - Towards a Best Practice Australian Public Service - Hobart

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