This audit assessed the effectiveness of the Indigenous Land Corporation’s administration of the Land Acquisition Program. Overall conclusion: Increasing Indigenous people’s access to land has been recognised by successive Australian Governments as an important mechanism to increase economic participation and to deliver social, cultural and environmental benefits for Indigenous people. The ILC has administered the...

This audit assessed the effectiveness of the administration of the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (ARPA)'s financial industry levies. Overall conclusion APRA was established in 1998 as part of a package of measures to strengthen consumer protection functions in the financial system. To meet APRA’s resourcing needs, the Government decided to ‘establish an administratively simple and...

The objective of this audit was to examine the effectiveness of the Australian Government Reconstruction Inspectorate, supported by the National Disaster Recovery Taskforce, in providing assurance that value for money is being achieved in respect to Queensland reconstruction projects. Overall conclusion The flooding that occurred in Queensland during the spring and summer of 2010–11 was...

The personal services income (PSI) regime is one of many taxation measures administered by the Australian Taxation Office (ATO), Australia’s principal revenue collection agency with responsibility for administering Australia’s taxation and superannuation systems. In 2011––12, the ATO collected $301 billion in net revenue from taxpayers, working within a departmental operating budget of $3.4 billion and...

This audit is the fifteenth in a series of audits and fulfils the Senate’s request for the Auditor‐General to provide an annual report on the use of confidentiality provisions in Australian Government contracts. The audit objective was to assess the appropriateness of the use and reporting of confidentiality provisions in Australian Government contracts for the...