This audit examined: New South Wales’ capacity to meet changing public housing need how well Housing NSW (HNSW), a division of the Department of Family and Community Services (FACS), acts to relocate tenancies where an individual’s needs or circumstances change how well the NSW Land and Housing Corporation (LAHC) a part of the Department of...

This report finds that ambulances in New South Wales wait longer at hospital emergency departments today than in previous years. Executive summary Background The Ambulance Service of New South Wales plays an important role in our health system. Its paramedics provide frontline emergency care to the community. They treat sick and injured patients at the...

This report finds that NSW public hospitals are treating patients within national clinical timeframes, however increased operations will be required as targets increase and demand grows. Summary: “Thousands more people could be operated on in the NSW public health system if operating theatres ran more efficiently,” said Mr Achterstraat. “Waiting times for elective surgery will...

Fraud can take many forms in the public service. It can be as simple as false entries on an employee’s timesheet or it can be as elaborate as a falsely valued property or lease deal. The major fraud control survey released in 2012 showed that fraud control measures are improving, but there is more work...

This audit examined how well the Department of Education and Communities monitors and supports young people at school or on an approved alternate pathway until they reach 17 years of age. Studies here and overseas have found that teenagers who leave school early are two and a half times more likely to be unemployed, earn...