Background 1. The National Stronger Regions Fund was a competitive grants program administered by the Department of Infrastructure and Regional Development (DIRD). The program’s objective was to ‘fund investment ready projects which support economic growth and sustainability of regions across Australia, particularly disadvantaged regions, by supporting investment in priority infrastructure’. 2. Local government authorities and...

Audit objective and criteria The objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of the Department of the Environment and Energy’s design and implementation of the Reef Trust. To form a conclusion against this objective, the ANAO adopted the following high level audit criteria: Did the design of the Reef Trust support the achievement...

Audit objective and criteria Recognising that a well-functioning and responsive disability services market is fundamental to the successful implementation of the NDIS, the audit focused on the management of the transition of the disability services market by the Australian Government entities with responsibility for the NDIS—the Department of Social Services (DSS or the department) and...

Audit objective and criteria This is the second of two Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) audits of the Scheme. The first audit report, ANAO Report No.8 2015–16, Administration of the National Rental Affordability Scheme, was presented to the Parliament in November 2015 and focused on the assessment of applications for allocations and management of reserved...

Audit approach The objectives of the audit were to: assess the effectiveness of the ongoing administration of the Australian Government’s campaign advertising framework; and assess the effectiveness of the selected entities’ administration in developing advertising campaigns and implementing key processes against the requirements of the campaign advertising framework applying at the time, and relevant legal...