Tag: Audit Committee

Tax Office unleashes AI on cumbersome ‘shoebox’ audits

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Artificial intelligence is being deployed by the Tax Office to speed up audits when taxpayers submit a “virtual shoebox” of supporting documents, while thousands of its staff are now...

Finance called on to clamp down on contracting scandals

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The Finance department must start taking action to lift contract management capability across the public service, an inquiry has found after examining a string of contracting failures and scandals....

Failings trigger call to break up govt’s tech work

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Large government technology projects should be broken up into smaller bundles of work and delivered in an agile way with sustainment and upgrade funding factored in from the start,...

NDIA procurement scandal referred to law enforcement

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The conduct of officials at the National Disability Insurance Agency has been referred to law enforcement agencies and regulators after a series of probes revealed secret meetings with ministers...

Muddied mixing, messaging plagued Defence vetting tech

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Bureaucratic and technical jargon obscured critical risks to Defence’s troubled clearance system from top brass and ministers, while contractors were able to influence the direction of outsourced work. That’s...

Sprawling tech projects trigger contract management probe

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Parliament’s powerful audit committee will probe how agencies manage contracts after damning audits – including investigations of two Accenture technology projects – revealed serious capability and probity gaps. The...

Corporate entities lose procurement rules carve out

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Corporate Commonwealth entities like the National Disability Insurance Agency will soon face the same procurement rules that apply to non-corporates after the Albanese government agreed to further tighten buying...