John Fahey knows a thing or two about waste and mismanagement. But that’s not why Julia Gillard put him in charge of the “Reconstruction Inspectorate”.
ANAO
ANAO: Environment bungled a program and misled the minister … again
In the wake of the damning Green Loans audit, the ANAO has released its audit of the insulation program, and found many of the same problems.
Green Loans: the monumental stuff up
The ANAO’s report on the Green Loans program is as bad as it gets and raises significant questions for the Public Service.
Lessons in competence, Part 2: the need for speed
When it came to competence, things didn’t improve much in the Howard Government’s final term. But while the Public Service was slowly improving its administration, the biggest problems were caused by ministers.
The myth of governmental
competence
Contrary to its claims of administrative competence, the Coalition had a series of costly blunders when in Government.
Read all about it: the BER program worked, and worked well
The Audit Office was expected by the media to belt the Government over its Building the Education Revolution stimulus package measures. On the contrary, it says the program is working well. Oops.
The culture of Public Service secrecy dies hard
Although public service agencies put on their websites details of all contracts valued at over $100,000, it’s harder than ever to see who’s receiving public money and what they’re receiving it for.
Rudd and Swan totally exonerated by Auditor-General report
The most aggressive investigators in the Commonwealth have cleared the Prime Minister and, more notably, the Treasurer.
