There has been a lot of consternation in recent years about the Commonwealth government's engagement of private consultancy services. A key recommendation stemming from this inquiry is for the Australian Parliament to legislate to establish a Joint Standing Committee to review and approve consultancy and services contracts, with provisions and thresholds similar to those in...

The objective of this audit was to assess the effectiveness of the Australian Digital Health Agency’s (ADHA) procurement relating to My Health Record system infrastructure. The audit finds that the Agency's procurement and contract management effectiveness has been diminished by poor planning and failure to observe core elements of the Commonwealth Procurement Rules.

This paper reports the results of modelling of the main measures in the 2024-25 Commonwealth Budget that directly impact on the incomes of Australian households, the reductions in personal income tax that take effect from 1 July 2024, and main budget measures that directly impact on the incomes of Australian households from previous budgets of...

This paper quantifies the value of subsidies from the Australian government to the renewables industry over the 10 years to financial year 2022-23. It finds that over that time, Australian taxpayers and electricity customers have paid more than $29 billion in subsidies to producers of renewable electricity through federal government schemes.

The research outlined in this report reveals that the Australian governments charge no royalties on 56% of the gas that is exported from Australia. Over the last four years, multinational companies made $149 billion exporting gas they got for free. If royalties had been charged on this gas, at least $13.3 billion in revenue could...