This audit examined selected entities’ effectiveness in implementing entity-wide fraud control arrangements, including compliance with the requirements of the 2011 Commonwealth Fraud Control Guidelines, and the overall administration of the fraud control framework by the Attorney-General’s Department. Overall conclusion Fraud control is an ongoing responsibility for Australian Government entities, providing a safeguard against: financial and...

This guide offers advice to public sector senior leaders on the successful implementation of policies so that unintended consequences, which deny the community the full benefits of a new policy or waste public resources, can be avoided. Foreword All Governments expect their policies to be implemented on time, on budget and to expectations. For that...

This speech discusses the critical role risk management plays in decision-making for the Australian Government public sector.

This audit assessed the effectiveness of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet’s implementation of food security initiatives for remote Indigenous communities.

This audit assessed the appropriateness of the use and reporting of confidentiality provisions in a sample of Australian Government contracts. Audit objective, criteria and scope This audit is the seventeenth in a series of audits and fulfils the Senate’s request for the Auditor‐General to provide an annual report on agencies’ compliance with the Senate Procedural...