Of six Years in Review the office published from 2019 to 2024, five have been removed from its website and survive only in web archive captures. The November 2023 Strategic Plan, which listed the office's performance indicators without baselines or targets, now returns "page not found". The 2019...
Of six Years in Review the office published from 2019 to 2024, five have been removed from its website and survive only in web archive captures. The November 2023 Strategic Plan, which listed the office's performance indicators without baselines or targets, now returns "page not found". The 2019...
The office's 2020 business case set a target to lift aggregate NSW Government cyber maturity from 2.7 to at least 3 within three years. The three years ended on 30 June 2023. Agencies reported 2022-23 on the old scale, so the result could have been calculated. It has not been published. In...
Coordinating whole-of-government cyber exercises is one of the functions the office inherited in 2019. The Auditor-General recorded that none was held for 2023, and that the last one had been run in two parts in April and September 2021. The office cited the caretaker period, the change of...
Every performance audit in progress on the ANAO website has a panel inviting the public to contribute. The panel tells you that "you will not automatically receive feedback about your contribution", that "contributions are intermittently monitored", and that you may upload one file of up to 8...
On 26 May 2017 Andrew Wilkie MP wrote to the Auditor-General asking for an audit of Centrelink's automated debt recovery. The reply, dated 27 June 2017, said "I do not intend to re-examine this specific issue", because the Commonwealth Ombudsman had reported on it in April 2017, and that the...
On 1 April 2026 the Senate resolved that it "requests the Auditor-General to urgently reinstate" the annual Defence Major Projects Report. The JCPAA had decided in March to stop requesting the report, after the Auditor-General, asked by the Committee's Chair for a way forward, advised in...
The ANAO uses private firms for part of its financial statements audit work. In 2025-26 five audit firms were among its largest non-consultancy suppliers: EY ($4.552 million), PwC ($3.754 million), Deloitte ($2.430 million), Crowe ($2.118 million) and KPMG ($1.724 million), GST inclusive....
Entities told the ANAO they had implemented 92% of its recommendations within two years. The ANAO's own follow-up audits of selected entities found that a quarter of the recommendations those entities said were implemented were only partly implemented or not implemented at all. The office...
The Australasian Council of Auditors-General assessed how independent each auditor-general is in 2020 and again in 2025. Australia's ranking fell from seventh to ninth, ahead only of South Australia, Papua New Guinea and the Northern Territory. Its weakest scores were on financial, managerial...
The ANAO "does not do media releases or media briefings on its reports" (ACAG, Independence Report 2025, p 64). For an office whose work matters only if it is noticed, that is a choice worth recording. Regulator Review's inputs for each body include its media releases. For the ANAO there are...
From April 2016 Ahpra published quarterly performance reports for each state and territory, saying it was doing so "for the first time". The reports carry the measures the annual report no longer does: average days to complete an investigation, the average age of open investigations, median days...
Ahpra's 2024/25 annual report says the average time to complete a notification "is the lowest recorded since the start of the scheme", and the CEO writes that it has fallen "37% from its peak". The report gives neither the average nor the peak. The last average published in an annual report was...