House of Representatives Committees

| Parliamentary Joint Committee on Public Accounts and Audit

Footnotes

Preliminary pages

[1] Since the annual report period aligns with the 43^rd Parliament period appointment.

[2] Parliament of Australia, Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit, Committee activities (inquiries and reports) http://www.aph.gov.au/house/committee/jcpaa/reports.htm.

[3] Please refer to JCPAA Report 420: Annual Report 2009-10, February 2011.

[4] Parliament of Australia, Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit, Committee activities (inquiries and reports) http://www.aph.gov.au/house/committee/jcpaa/reports.htm.

[5] This report was presented on behalf of the Committee of the previous Parliament, which undertook all of the public hearings.

[6] Fourteen of these recommendations were included across the two major inquiry reports, while four were included in the review of the Auditor-General’s reports.

[7] Mr Oakeshott MP, Auditor-General Amendment Bill 2011 – First reading, 28 February 2011.

[8] Parliament of Australia, Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit, Inquiry into National Funding Agreements, http://www.aph.gov.au/house/committee/jcpaa/natagree/index.htm.

Chapter 1 The JCPAA’s role and functions

[1] The Act can be viewed at the Committee’s website http://www.aph.gov.au/house/committee/jcpaa/index.htm.

[2] The Australian Labor Party & the Independent Members (Mr Tony Windsor and Mr Rob Oakeshott) (‘the Parties’) – Agreement, ‘The Committee System’, signed 7 day of September 2010, p.6.

[3] Jacobs, Kerry and Jones, Kate, Governing the Government: The Paradoxical Place of the Public Accounts Committee, Public Sector Governance and Accountability Research Centre La Trobe University (paper presented to the 2005 Australasian Study of Parliament Group), p.2.

[4] The duties of the JCPAA are described in detail in sections 8 and 8A of the Committee’s Act.

[5] These potential new duties are a direct outcome of the Government’s response to the recommendations in the Joint Select Committee on the Parliamentary Budget Office’s report Inquiry into the proposed Parliamentary Budget Office. The report and government response is available at http://www.aph.gov.au/house/committee/jscpbo/report.htm.

[6] The House of Representatives Standing Order 215(c) requires that the JCPAA be notified in writing if a House committee decides to review an Auditor-General report.

[7] Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit, Report 411: Progress on equipment acquisition and financial reporting in Defence, August 2008, p. 158.

[8] Senate Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade References Committee, Materiel Acquisition and Management in Defence, March 2003, p. 79.

[9] Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit, Report 411: Progress on equipment acquisition and financial reporting in Defence, August 2008, pp.vii–viii, xxii–xxiii, 161–175.

[10] The Auditor-General Act 1997, Part 3 – The Auditor-General.

[11] Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit, Report by the Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit on the 2011-12 Draft Estimates for the Audit Office, 10 May 2011, available from, http://www.aph.gov.au/house/committee/jcpaa/reports.htm.

[12] Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, Requirements for Annual Reports: for departments, executive agencies and FMA Act bodies, 8 July 2011, p.4, see http://www.dpmc.gov.au/guidelines/docs/annual_report_requirements_2010-11.pdf.

[13] See Department of Finance and Deregulation, Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit Reports: A guide for Agencies when preparing a response, available from, http://www.finance.gov.au/financial-framework/governance/joint-committee-of-public-accounts-and-audit.html.

Chapter 2 Summary of activities for 2010-11

[1] Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit, Report 418 – Review of Auditor-General’s Reports Nos. 04 to 38 (2009/10), available from http://www.aph.gov.au/house/committee/jcpaa/auditgen1_10/report.htm.

[2] This report concluded the previous Committee’s examination of 37 audit reports presented to the Parliament by the Auditor-General between September 2009 and May 2010. The Committee selected nine reports for further scrutiny at public hearings conducted between March and June 2010.

[3] Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit, Report 422 – Review of the 2009-10 Defence Materiel Organisation Major Projects Report, available from, http://www.aph.gov.au/house/committee/jcpaa/defenceannual0310/index.htm.

[4] A public hearing was held in March 2010 to review the 2008-09 Major Projects Report, however a report was not released prior to the 2010 federal election.

[5] Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit, Report 421 – Inquiry into the role of the Auditor-General in scrutinising government advertising campaigns, available from, http://www.aph.gov.au/house/committee/jcpaa/govtad/index.htm.

[6] Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit, Report 419 – Inquiry into the Auditor-General Act 1997, available from, http://www.aph.gov.au/house/committee/jcpaa/agact/report.htm.

[7] Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit, Report 424 Eighth biannual hearing with the Commissioner of Taxation, June 2011, available from, http://www.aph.gov.au/house/committee/jcpaa/taxationbiannual0311/index.htm.

[8] ANAO, Audit Work Program July 2011, http://www.anao.gov.au/Publications/Audit-Work-Program.

[9] See http://www.aph.gov.au/house/committee/jcpaa/budgetspeeches/budgetstatement11.pdf.

[10] Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, Requirements for Annual Reports: for departments, executive agencies and FMA Act bodies, 8 July 2011, p. i, available from, http://www.dpmc.gov.au/guidelines/docs/annual_report_requirements_2010-11.pdf.

[11] Mr Geoff Wilson, Planning and Scoping of Performance Audits by the Australian National Audit Office (June 2011), available from, http://www.anao.gov.au/AboutUs/~/media/34F737FCB85147398A00C2E8FBB0BDDA.pdf.

[12] Mr Geoff Wilson, Planning and Scoping of Performance Audits by the Australian National Audit Office (June 2011), p. 14, available from, http://www.anao.gov.au/AboutUs/~/media/34F737FCB85147398A00C2E8FBB0BDDA.pdf.

[13] The Clerk Assistant (Committees) from the Department of the House of Representatives also delivered a presentation, Engaging the community: the experience of the House of Representatives’ Committee Office.

[14] The terms of reference for this inquiry can be found at http://www.aph.gov.au/house/committee/jcpaa/natagree/tor.htm.

Appendix B – Committee expenses 2010-11

[1] The secretariat also supported the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Agriculture, Resources, Fisheries and Forestry during 2010-11. The figure for secretariat staffing expenses for the JCPAA excludes an estimation of expenses devoted solely to the House committee.

[2] As with other parliamentary committees, members’ travel on Committee business is funded by the Department of Finance and Deregulation. Details of parliamentary entitlements administered by the Department are published at www.finance.gov.au/publications/parliamentarians-reporting/index.html

[3] Remuneration Tribunal, Parliamentarians, ‘Determination 2010/16 Parliamentary Office Holders-Additional salary, available from, http://www.remtribunal.gov.au/federalParliamentarians/default.asp?menu=Sec5&switch=on.