Audit objective and criteria The audit objective was to assess the departments of Health and Human Services’ administration, including oversight and monitoring arrangements, for the Indemnity Insurance Fund. To form a conclusion against the objective, the ANAO adopted the following high level criteria: the Department of Health has in place and ensures adequate oversight and...

The Rural Research and Development (R&D) for Profit Programme is a competitive grants programme administered by the Department of Agriculture and Water Resources. The programme implements a 2013 federal election commitment from the then Opposition, and was initially funded for $100 million over four years (from 2014–15 to 2017–18). In July 2015, as part of...

The Department of Immigration and Border Protection’s (DIBP) management of procurement activity for garrison support and welfare services at the offshore processing centres in Nauru and Papua New Guinea (Manus Island) has fallen well short of effective procurement practice. This audit has identified serious and persistent deficiencies in the three phases of procurement activity undertaken...

Background The Government established the Carbon Farming Initiative in September 2011 under which entities associated with the agricultural, forestry and legacy waste (landfill) emissions sectors of the economy could register projects and earn credits for every tonne of carbon abated. In November 2014, the Government expanded the Carbon Farming Initiative to form the $2.55 billion...

Audit objective and criteria The objective of this audit was to assess the effectiveness of the Department of Immigration and Border Protection’s administration of health services in onshore immigration detention. To form a conclusion against this objective, the ANAO adopted the following high-level criteria: Was a robust contract in place to support the effective and...