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Performance audit (Auditor-General Report No. 49 of 1998–99)
Published: Tuesday 29 June 1999
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The objective was to assess the extent to which staff reductions have been managed in a sound strategic and cost-effective manner consistent with the Government's guidelines and the ANAO's 1996 better practice guide Managing APS Staff Reductions. The audit focussed on 3 agencies - the Australian Taxation Office, the former Department of Primary Industry and Energy, and the former Department of Transport and Regional Development. The ANAO found that the majority of staff reductions were achieved through retrenchment rather than natural attrition; and that decisions on the number of retrenchments were not always supported by an assessment of the impact of the reductions on the agencies' abilities to conduct their business.
Entity
Public Service and Merit Protection Commission and Other Agencies
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Performance audit (Auditor-General Report No. 16 of 1997–98)
Published: Sunday 26 October 1997
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The objectives of the audit were to examine the benefits of diversity management in the APS and review the progress made towards equity in employment in the APS, including the EEO Program. It included:
- an assessment of the progress towards achieving equity across the APS and by individual agencies;
- an assessment of the quality of agency EEO programs;
- an assessment of the role of the PSMPC in approving agency EEO programs and monitoring trends across the service;
- a consideration of legal obligations and agencies compliance with these; and
- the possible risks to, and opportunities for, equity under the WRA.
The audit concentrated on evidence of overall progress, the relative performance of individual agencies, and the examination of observed and underlying trends.
Entity
Public Service and Merit Protection Commission and Other Agencies
Type of content
Performance audit (Auditor-General Report No. 36 of 2017–18)
Published: Monday 23 April 2018
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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.
Entity
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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Performance audit (Auditor-General Report No. 6 of 2017–18)
Published: Tuesday 15 August 2017
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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
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Performance audit (Auditor-General Report No. 25 of 2017–18)
Published: Monday 22 January 2018
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The audit objective was to assess whether the Australian Electoral Commission appropriately established and managed the contracts for the transportation of completed ballot papers and the Senate scanning solution for the 2016 Federal Election.
Entity
Australian Electoral Commission
Contact
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Type of content
Performance audit (Auditor-General Report No. 33 of 1998–99)
Published: Tuesday 9 March 1999
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This report summarises audit and other related activities of the Australian National Audit Office in the period July to December 1998.
Entity
Audit Activity Report
Type of content
Performance audit (Auditor-General Report No. 4 of 2000–01)
Published: Monday 14 August 2000
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This report summarises audit and other related activities of the Australian National Audit Office in the period January to June 2000.
Entity
Audit Activity Report
Type of content
Performance audit (Auditor-General Report No. 36 of 1997–98)
Published: Monday 2 March 1998
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This report is the second in a series of reports to be tabled at six-monthly intervals. It summarises the audit and other activities of the ANAO in the period July to December 1997.
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Audit Activity Report
Type of content
Performance audit (Auditor-General Report No. 28 of 2000–01)
Published: Wednesday 7 February 2001
Published
The report summarises the audit and other related activities of the ANAO in the period June to December 2000. It provides a consolidated report of the ANAO's integrated audit products tabled during the period. Key issues examined in the ANAO's performance audit activity in the period were:
- risk management in a corporate governance framework;
- outsourcing and asset sales;
- contract management;
- service delivery;
- data management/management information systems; and
- legislative implementation.
The report also summarised the results of a report summarising the final results of the audits of the financial statements of Commonwealth entities; and dealt with issues regarding financial management issues, controls and processes arising from the financial audit activities conducted during the period.
Entity
Audit Activity Report
Type of content
Performance audit (Auditor-General Report No. 27 of 2017–18)
Published: Wednesday 14 February 2018
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The objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet’s management of the Australian Government’s Register of Lobbyists.
Entity
Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet
Contact
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