Areas Of Focus For The Coming Year

The major areas of focus for the coming year are set out below.

  • Delivery of a range of timely and relevant products on topics that provide the greatest opportunity for improvement in administration across the Australian Public Service.
  • Identification of initiatives to improve strategies for the retention and attraction of staff.
  • Review of our business performance with a view to improving the way we operate and, in the longer term, reducing our reliance on contractors in auditing public sector agencies and authorities in order to improve the retention of our corporate knowledge
  • Assessment of our business priorities in light of the rising costs of running our business that increases over the period of the forward estimates.
  • Implementation of our Workforce Plan to optimise our work environment.
  • Review of our performance indicators to ensure they support business directions.
  • Implementation of our Information Technology Strategic Plan which will provide new systems to facilitate a range of audit and audit administrative processes.