As Australia’s largest independent media sector, community broadcasting provides an opportunity to reflect voices that aren’t adequately represented in mainstream media. The Australian Government provides funding assistance to the sector via the Community Broadcasting Program (CBP). This evaluation used a mixed methods approach to understand the effectiveness of the grant program.

The Growing Regions Program is one of the largest competitive grant programs administered by the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts. The objective of this audit was to assess the effectiveness of the design and planning of the program.

The objective of this audit was to assess the effectiveness of the design and award of funding for Round 6 of the Mobile Black Spot Program. The audit found that the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts was largely effective in the design and award of funding for the MBSP.

WestInvest is a $5 billion funding program announced in September 2021 to provide ‘local infrastructure to help communities hit hard by COVID-19’ in 15 local government areas (LGAs) selected by the NSW government. The objective of this audit was to assess the integrity of the design and implementation of the program and the award of...

The Research Impact Track Record Assessment (RITRA) framework requires researchers to report on past research impacts in their applications for grants. This report describes the results of a process evaluation that sought to determine whether the RITRA framework has been implemented as intended. It found it was implemented as planned but that there were several...