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Published: Thursday 29 June 2000
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The objective of the audit was to examine program management in the Training and Youth Division of the Department of Education, Training and Youth Affairs. In broad terms, the audit focused on the management frameworks at both Divisional and program level. Three of the Division's programs were selected for more detailed review as follows:

  • Workplace English Language and Literacy;
  • Literacy and Numeracy; and
  • Support for New Apprentices.
Entity
Department of Education, Training and Youth Affairs
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
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Published: Tuesday 5 November 2002
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The objective of the audit was to assess whether the controls employed by the Department of Family and Community Services (FACS) and Centrelink to ensure the correctness of payments made under the Age Pension program were effective and efficient. The ANAO focused on:

  • business arrangements between FACS and Centrelink and the Business Assurance Framework;
  • whether the source of error was correctly attributed in customer records assessed by FACS and Centrelink as containing an error in the 2000-01 Age Pension Random Sample Survey:
  • the correctness of Centrelink's processing of reassessments, including Pensioner Entitlements Reviews, Customer Initiated Reassessments and automated reassessments: and
  • progress in implementing the recommendations of previous ANAO audits concerning the preventive quality controls that underpin correct payments.
Entity
Department of Family and Community Services; Centrelink
Published: Thursday 9 February 2012
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The objective of the audit was to assess the extent to which FaHCSIA, DEEWR and DoHA seek to reduce service delivery risks posed by capacity constraints in Indigenous organisations.

Entity
Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations and Department of Health and Ageing
Published: Wednesday 26 March 2003
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The audit reviewed the Australian Customs Service (Customs) fraud control arrangements. The audit objective was to assess whether Customs has implemented appropriate fraud control arrangements consistent with the Commonwealth's Fraud Control Guidelines and the administrative effectiveness of these arrangements.

Entity
Australian Customs Service
Published: Thursday 20 June 2002
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The overall objective of the audit was to assess AusAID's management of commercial contracts to deliver Australia's overseas aid program. To this end, the audit examined whether:

  • there are sound supporting structures for contract management;
  • AusAid effectively manages risks;
  • contracts clearly define deliverables;
  • services are delivered and payments are made in accordance with the contract;
  • there are appropriate arrangements to manage contractor performance;
  • strategies appropriately assess and allocate risk between AusAid and contractors; and
  • contracts deliver the desired aid outcomes.
Entity
Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID)
Published: Friday 12 March 2004
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Mr P.J. Barrett (AM) - Auditor-General for Australia, presented to the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India

Published: Friday 26 October 2001
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The audit's objective was to assess, and report to Parliament on, the ATO's administration of petroleum excise collections. The audit examined whether the ATO had implemented effectively administrative arrangements for the collection of petroleum excise since the transfer of the function from Customs in 1999. Areas that were examined relating to administration of petroleum excise were:

  • governance arrangements;
  • licensing arrangements;
  • compliance management;
  • investigations; and
  • revenue management.

The audit also reviewed the role of Customs in performing functions directly related to petroleum excise collections and key elements of the management relationship between the ATO and Customs in this area.

Entity
Australian Taxation Office
Published: Friday 30 November 2001
Published

Mr P.J. Barrett (AM) - Auditor-General for Australia, presented to the Institute of Public Administration Australia

Published: Wednesday 31 March 2004
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In April 2002, the ANAO tabled Audit Report No.40 2001-02 Corporate Governance in the Australian Broadcasting Corporation ( the 2002 audit). In August 2003, the ABC submitted a report to the Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit (JCPAA) on its progress in implementing the recommendations from the 2002 audit and the JCPAA report. This follow-up audit examined the ABC's implementation of recommendations from both reports, using the ABC's progress report as its base.

Entity
Australian Broadcasting Corporation