in the new national Parliament established a special office to oversee spending. The Audit Act 1901 led to the hiring of an independent auditor-general and established a team of specialists to look over the books of all Commonwealth departments without intimidation by government or other vested interests.
Over the past two years, the performance audit section, which looks at whether money is being spent efficiently and departments are achieving objectives, has lost 20 staff, equivalent to the capacity for eight audits. And since 2013, While the audit office checks government departments’ annual financial statements, which are mostly pedestrian declarations of figures and accounting jargon, according to former NSW auditor-general Tony Harris, what governments really fear are the office’s performance audits.that more than 35 per cent of his performance reports carried out during his first five years at the helm were only “partially positive” and about 9 per cent made “adverse” findings.
AustralianLabor should include in its platform a quadrupling of the ANAO_Australia budget as well as enable high responsiveness to FOI requests. Open it all up.
and that is by LNP design
Gunna ask this of every journo; at what point does the behaviour of the LNP constitute an existential threat to both Aus Democracy and cultural values? When is it obligated the 4th estate report against the ruling party?
This is bad news. It is the same strategy as was used with the Family Court of Australia starve it of resources into oblivion and trust no one notices until it’s too late. Thanks Grant Hehir for speaking up, SMH for publishing
This is what corrupt governments do.
Broadband_ That’ll stop the buggers from finding things
That’s what Morrison wants.
No oversight. No scrutiny. No Federal ICAC. No whistleblower protection etc. etc. etc. Is this the beginning of the end? 😠
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