Carla Jago, Acting Deputy Auditor-General, Australian National Audit Office, delivered a speech at the Public Sector Assurance Forum on 1 August 2024 on building a Public Sector with the strong foundations of integrity and trust.

The ANAO was invited to prepare a paper for an international conference on the role of supreme audit Institutions in combatting corruption for the advancement of transparency, public integrity, and good governance. The international conference formed part of the celebrations for the 30th anniversary of the establishment of the State Audit Office of Viet Nam and was held from 8-12 July 2024,

Sally Ramsey, Executive Director – Corporate Management Group, Australian National Audit Office, delivered a speech at the PASAI Congress on 23 May 2024 on external scrutiny with Parliament and strengthening public financial management systems

The acting Deputy Auditor-General, Ms Carla Jago, presented at the PASAI Congress on 23 May 2024 on audit quality.

The acting Deputy Auditor-General, Ms Carla Jago, presented at the PASAI Congress on 20 May 2024 on the Challenges to Supreme Audit Institution Independence.

Amelia Pomery, Senior Director – Professional Services Group, Australian National Audit Office, delivered a presentation virtually to the PASAI Leadership Program, on 4 April 2024.  The presentation was titled System of Audit Quality Management.

Christine Chalmers, Executive Director – Performance Audit Services Group, Australian National Audit Office, recently attended INTOSAI’s Performance Audit Subcommittee Annual meeting from 5-6 March 2024 in Tbilisi, Georgia. At the meeting, Christine gave a presentation on Civil society engagement in performance audit – Indigenous/First Nations persons involvement in audits of indigenous land councils. The presentation was titled First Nations peoples’ involvement in audits of Indigenous land councils.

Kristian Gage, Executive Director (ANAO Senior Advisor to the Audit Board of the Republic of Indonesia) – Corporate Management Group, Australian National Audit Office, delivered a presentation as a part of ASOSAI’s international seminar ‘How to Meet the Public Expectation on SAI’, in Bali, Indonesia, on 12 December 2023.  The presentation was titled Ensuring Reliability and Credibility by Leveraging Transparent Processes and Methods.

Sam Khaw, Director - Performance Audit Services Group Australian National Audit Office, delivered a presentation as a part of an international seminar ‘Training of the Sustainable Development Goals: Energy transitions as part of the Green Economy’ (an initiative of INTOSAI’s Working Group on Environmental Auditing), in Bali, Indonesia on 30 November 2023. The presentation was titled The Australian National Audit Office's Approach to Auditing Climate and Energy (including Agriculture, the Environment, and Water).

The Auditor-General for Australia, Grant Hehir, delivered a keynote address to the Institute of Public Administration Australia (IPAA) on Tuesday 12 September 2023. The address was titled Public sector accountability – the ANAO’s role and it was delivered as part of IPAA's Secretary Series.

Michelle Page, Senior Executive Director Performance Audit Services Group, delivered a presentation to the Institute of Internal Auditors – Public Sector Assurance Forum on 3 August 2023. The presentation was titled Lessons for promoting integrity in the effective management of probity.

The Auditor-General for Australia, Grant Hehir, presented at a panel session on Theme 1 for the SAI 20 Summit 2023. The Theme 1 topic was the blue economy and the Auditor-General spoke about capacity building within significant audit institutions (SAIs) for the blue economy. The SAI 20 Summit 2023 was hosted in Goa, India from 12 June 2023 to 14 June 2023.

The Auditor-General for Australia, Grant Hehir, delivered the welcome address to the biennial International Meeting of Performance Audit Critical Thinkers (IMPACT) 2023 conference. IMPACT 2023 was hosted in Canberra, Australia on 19 and 20 April 2023.

Michelle Page, Senior Executive Director Performance Audit Services Group, delivered a presentation to the International Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions (INTOSAI) Performance Audit Subcommittee on 29 March 2023. The presentation was titled Assessing the impact of performance audits.

The ANAO provided an article to the March 2023 edition of the PASAI newsletter on the development of a methodology for auditing ethics. The article was titled SAI Australia develops methodology for auditing ethics.

The ANAO provided a case study to SAI Russia, as a follow-up to the Moscow Declaration SAI Russia is publishing a collection of case studies and best practices of strategic approach to public auditing. The case study was titled Using data analytics for risk-based performance audit planning.

The ANAO, provided a country paper and acting Executive Director Corinne Horton, delivered a presentation to the 8th Asian Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions (ASOSAI) Seminar on Environmental Auditing virtually, on 25 October 2021. The country paper was titled Themes from the Australian National Audit Office’s recent environmental audit coverage and the presentation was titled Audit Promoting Government Accountability for Environment.

The ANAO, provided a country paper to the 8th ASOSAI Symposium held virtually on 8 September 2021. The paper was titled Responding to disaster and pandemic issues.

The fifteenth Commonwealth Auditor-General of Australia, Grant Hehir, has prepared a mid-term report reflecting on his first five years in the role. The report presents a description and analysis of the role and impact of audit, as well as analysis of the financial audit and performance audit work of the Australian National Audit Office (ANAO). The report concludes with coverage of ANAO continuous improvement activities across audit quality, better communication, transparency, efficiency and workforce capability.

The Auditor-General, Grant Hehir, delivered a presentation to the 15th Biennial Australasian Council of Public Accounts Committees (ACPAC) Conference held at Parliament House, Canberra, on 7 November 2019. The presentation was titled Maintaining Trust in the Parliamentary Process — PACs and Officers of the Parliament.

Grant Hehir, Auditor-General for Australia, attended the Institute of Internal Auditors-Australia ‘Public Sector Internal Audit Conference’ on 31 July 2018, and presented an opening keynote session titled Strategic governance of risk: Lessons learnt from public sector audit. The accompanying paper to the speech, which was delivered against a conference theme of ‘internal auditor as a trusted advisor’, is available here.

Grant Hehir, Auditor-General for Australia, attended the 18th Meeting of INTOSAI Working Group on Environmental Auditing in Bundung Indonesia in July 2018, and presented a keynote address titled Sharing experience on auditing urban environmental management. The accompanying paper to the speech is available here.

Grant Hehir, Auditor-General for Australia, presented at the Australian National Centre for Audit & Assurance Research (ANCAAR) 15th ANCAAR Audit Research Forum on 1 December 2017.

Grant Hehir, Auditor-General for Australia, attended the XXIII Commonwealth Auditors-General Conference in New Delhi, India, and presented a keynote speech on 22 March 2017 titled Environmental Audit: A Commonwealth Perspective.

Grant Hehir, Auditor-General for Australia, delivered a presentation titled A reflection of how far performance auditing has come from its roots in the 1970s to where we are today and where we are heading, at the IMPACT Conference in Brisbane on 15 March 2016.

IMPACT brings together Auditors-General, leaders, practitioners, industry experts and academics from across the globe to discuss the future of performance auditing in the public sector, share experiences and question current practices.

Mr Mr Ian McPhee, AO PSM - Auditor-General for Australia, reflected on his 10 years as Auditor-General for Australia during a presentation to the Australasian Council of Public Accounts Committees in Adelaide, South Australia

Mr Mr Ian McPhee, AO PSM - Auditor-General for Australia, presented an Australian Country Paper at the 6th ASOSAI Symposium in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Mr Mr Ian McPhee - Auditor-General for Australia, presented at the 2014 National Conference of the Risk Management Institution of Australasia, Brisbane

Mr Mr Ian McPhee - Auditor-General for Australia, participated in a panel discussion at the Australian Government Leadership Network Annual Conference (Queensland)

Mr Mr Ian McPhee - Auditor-General for Australia, presented at the Institute of Public Administration Australia (ACT Division)