The Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) regards integrity as a core value of the organisation — critical in sustaining the confidence of Parliament, strengthening public trust in government and delivering quality audit products. Maintaining strong institutional integrity is critical to the operations and reputation of the ANAO.

The ANAO Integrity Framework provides an overarching structure to the integrity control system, supporting the institution’s integrity. The Framework serves to assist in ethical decision-making and risk, fraud and misconduct management.

This report captures available information to assess vulnerabilities identified using the International Organisation of Supreme Audit Institutions (IntoSAINT). This self-assessment tool allows Supreme Audit Institutions (SAIs) and public sector organisations to identify and evaluate their institutional vulnerability and the resilience and maturity of their Integrity Control System against possible integrity violations. The ANAO conducted an IntoSAINT self-assessment in March 2019. The IntoSAINT methodology assesses the SAI’s:

• inherent vulnerability to integrity violations;
• vulnerability enhancing factors that enhance the inherent vulnerabilities of an organisation to integrity violations; and
• the maturity of the integrity control system.

The 2019 IntoSAINT ANAO assessment results for vulnerability enhancing factors identified that the ANAO’s highest vulnerability enhancing factors were elevated workloads and the need for external expertise and outsourcing arrangements.

The ANAO is satisfied that the matters noted in this report do not represent systemic or structural issues in the organisation.