Progress in Closing the Gap has been slow. The National Agreement on Closing the Gap includes 17 socio-economic outcome areas with 19 targets. This audit focuses on activities related to the three outcome areas for schooling and early childhood development, which comprise Targets 3, 4 and 5. It provides four recommendations.

Services Australia collects, stores and uses the personal information of more than 27 million people to deliver services and payments. This audit provides assurance about whether Services Australia is effectively managing the privacy of client information. Deficiencies were found with risk management, data matching, record-keeping, impact assessments, transparency and reporting. The report provides eight recommendations.

This report presents themes and insights from the 2024–25 performance audit program, as well as analysis of the outcomes of performance audits between 2020–21 and 2024–25. Four key themes emerged from the audits: integrity; stewardship; risk management; and performance management. Audits observed good practices as well as deficiencies.

This audit provides independent assurance to Parliament over whether the NDIS (National Disability Insurance Scheme) Commission is effectively exercising its regulatory functions. The NDIS Commission was found to be partly effective in exercising its regulatory functions and 10 recommendations were provided.

Data is a valuable asset of every Commonwealth entity, as it underpins informed decision-making, efficient and effective business operations and public accountability. Auditing work has highlighted good practices and fundamental deficiencies in the governance of data across multiple entities. This guide is for Australian Government officials in information governance roles and those who use data...