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Published: Tuesday 25 June 2013
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The objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of the Australian Taxation Office’s administration of debt relief arrangements.

Entity
Australian Taxation Office
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Published: Monday 24 June 2013
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The objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of the Australian Taxation Office’s management of its property portfolio.

Entity
Australian Taxation Office
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Published: Thursday 20 June 2013
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The objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of the Department of Health and Ageing’s administration of the GP Super Clinics program to support improved community access to integrated GP and primary health care services.

Entity
Department of Health and Ageing
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Published: Wednesday 19 June 2013
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The objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of the Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs' (FaHCSIA) administration and management of the Targeted Community Care (Mental Health) Program.

Entity
Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
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Published: Tuesday 18 June 2013
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The objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre's (AUSTRAC) arrangements for processing financial intelligence, to assist domestic partner agencies and international counterparts in their operations and investigations.

Entity
Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC)
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Published: Tuesday 18 June 2013
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The objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of the Department of Veterans’ Affairs’ and the Department of Defence’s administration of the Australian Government’s $55 million support package announced in the May 2010 Budget for former F-111 fuel tank maintenance workers and their families. The audit examined the implementation of the 14 agreed recommendations in the Government Response to the 2009 Parliamentary Inquiry into the F-111 deseal/reseal issues, which formed the basis of the May 2010, F-111 support package.

Entity
Department of Veterans' Affairs; Department of Defence
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Published: Monday 17 June 2013
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The audit objective was to assess the administrative effectiveness of the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations(DEEWR), Department of Human Services (DHS) partnership arrangement in supporting the delivery of employment programs.

Entity
Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations; Department of Human Services
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Published: Thursday 13 June 2013
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The objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of the Australian Taxation Office's (ATO) management and reporting of selected information relating to the goods and services tax and the fringe benefits tax.

Entity
Australian Taxation Office
Contact

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Published: Wednesday 12 June 2013
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The objective of the audit was to assess the efficiency and effectiveness of the establishment, implementation and administration of the general component of the Local Jobs stream of the Jobs Fund, with a particular focus on the establishment of program objectives and the extent to which approved grants have demonstrably contributed to the cost-effective achievement of those objectives.

Entity
Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
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Published: Thursday 6 June 2013
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The objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of the Department of Human Services' (DHS) administration of the shopfront co-location of DHS services.

Entity
Department of Human Services
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Published: Friday 31 May 2013
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The objective of the audit was to assess the awarding of funding under the Supported Accommodation Innovation Fund against the requirements of the Commonwealth’s grants administration framework.

Entity
Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
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Published: Thursday 30 May 2013
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The objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of the Department of Human Services' arrangements for engaging and managing External Collection Agencies to recover debts arising from Centrelink payments.

Entity
Department of Human Services
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Published: Tuesday 28 May 2013
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The audit objective was to assess the effectiveness of AusAID’s management of infrastructure aid to Indonesia, with a particular focus on the Eastern Indonesia National Roads Improvement Project and the Indonesia Infrastructure Initiative.

Entity
Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID)
Contact

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Published: Thursday 23 May 2013
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The objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations’ (DEEWR) role in the delivery of the Children and Family Centre (CFC) component of the National Partnership Agreement on Indigenous Early Childhood Development (IECD NP).

Entity
Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
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Published: Wednesday 22 May 2013
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The audit objective was to assess the effectiveness of the Department of Industry, Innovation, Science, Research and Tertiary Education’s (DIISRTE’s) administration of the Education Investment Fund grants program.

(DIISRTE was the department that had responsibility for the administration of the EIF grants program during the course of the audit. The recommendations and suggestions for improvement are, however, directed to the Department of Industry, Innovation, Climate Change, Science, Research and Tertiary Education because this department now has responsibility for the administration of the program).

Entity
Department of Industry, Innovation, Climate Change, Science, Research and Tertiary Education; Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
Contact

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Published: Tuesday 21 May 2013
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The objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of the Commonwealth Environmental Water Office’s administration of environmental water holdings.

Entity
Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities
Contact

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Published: Thursday 16 May 2013
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The audit objective was to assess whether Australian Government agencies were effectively controlling the use of credit cards for official purposes.

Entity
Australian Trade Commission; Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet; Geoscience Australia
Contact

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Published: Thursday 9 May 2013
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The objective of the audit was to assess the extent to which the Department of the Treasury and the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) have improved the management of tax expenditure estimates by implementing the six recommendations in the 2008 ANAO audit and the three recommendations made by the Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit (JCPAA) following its inquiry.

Entity
Department of the Treasury; Australian Taxation Office
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Published: Wednesday 8 May 2013
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The objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of the Tax Practitioners Board's implementation and administration of the regulatory arrangements for tax practitioners under the Tax Agent Services Act 2009.

Entity
Australian Taxation Office; Tax Practitioners Board
Contact

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Published: Tuesday 7 May 2013
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The objective of the audit was to assess the awarding of funding for the construction of the Adelaide Desalination Plant (ADP) against the requirements of the Commonwealth's grants administration framework, which includes the Government’s policy requirements for the approval of grants, with a particular focus on the assessments undertaken of each proposed grant in terms of the guidelines for the National Urban Water and Desalination Plan (NUWDP); and identify any potential improvements in grants administration practices.

Entity
Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities; Department of Finance and Deregulation; Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet
Contact

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Published: Thursday 2 May 2013
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The objective of this audit was to examine the effectiveness of the Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs’ administration of the National Partnership Agreement on Homelessness (NPAH), including monitoring and reporting of progress against the objective and outcomes of the agreement.

Entity
Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
Contact

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Published: Wednesday 1 May 2013
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The objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of Customs and Border Protection’s arrangements for managing the safe and secure storage and disposal of detained goods.

Entity
Australian Customs and Border Protection Service
Published: Tuesday 30 April 2013
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The audit objective was to assess the effectiveness of the Department of Veterans’ Affairs (DVA) administration of the veterans’ children education schemes.

Entity
Department of Veterans' Affairs
Published: Tuesday 23 April 2013
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The Australian National Audit Office has undertaken a pilot project to assess the status of the Australian Government performance measurement and reporting framework as a basis for implementation of a future program of audits of entities’ key performance indicators, and to develop a suitable audit methodology. This report presents a summary of the work completed to date.

Entity
Across Agencies
Published: Tuesday 9 April 2013
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The audit objective was to assess the effectiveness of DIISTRE’s administration of the Research Block Grant schemes. The department’s performance was assessed against the following criteria:

  • the schemes are effectively planned and administered;
  • the processes and systems used for calculating and distributing funds reflect the allocation criteria specified for each scheme; and
  • compliance with scheme guidelines is monitored and scheme performance and contribution to the broader goals of the RBG program is assessed.
Entity
Department of Industry, Innovation, Climate Change, Science, Research and Tertiary Education
Published: Thursday 28 February 2013
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The objective of the current audit was to assess the effectiveness of remediation arrangements put in place by Defence and the Defence Materiel Organisation (DMO) to resolve issues impacting on the achievement of the desired lightweight torpedo capability. It focuses on project management and contractual arrangements, and the progress made with platform integration and test and evaluation.

Entity
Department of Defence; Defence Materiel Organisation (DMO)
Published: Wednesday 27 February 2013
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The objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of Defence’s monitoring of the implementation of ANAO and internal audit recommendations. The audit also examined a sample of ANAO and internal audit recommendations—reported as being complete by Defence—to assess the extent to which these recommendations had been implemented by Defence.

Entity
Department of Defence; Defence Materiel Organisation
Published: Tuesday 26 February 2013
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The objective of this audit was to assess the extent to which the disaster recovery work plans for Queensland and Victoria were prepared, and appropriate monitoring reports provided, in accordance with the relevant National Partnership Agreement (NPA).

Entity
Department of Regional Australia, Local Government, Arts and Sport
Published: Tuesday 26 February 2013
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The objective of this audit was to assess 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 recovery and reconstruction expenditure in Victoria.

Entity
Department of Regional Australia, Local Government, Arts and Sport
Published: Thursday 21 February 2013
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The objective of the audit was to examine the effectiveness of the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry’s administration of the Tasmanian Forests Intergovernmental Agreement Contractors Voluntary Exit Grants Program.

Entity
Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry