Tag: ANAO

ATO building AI models without specific governance policies

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
The Australian Taxation Office is building and deploying AI models in-house without centralised policies and guidance for public servants, exposing it to legal and ethical risks, the auditor-general has...

Audit office clears king-sized cost of PsiQuantum legal fees

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
The national auditor has cleared a multi-million dollar blowout on legal advice for the federal government’s investment in Californian quantum startup PsiQuantum, concluding that the key due diligence contract...

AI policies still missing at 20 federal agencies

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Almost two dozen federal government agencies using artificial intelligence were without internal policies governing its use last year, and more than 40 had no assurance arrangements in place, an...

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...

Health agency ‘captured’ by Accenture looks to reset

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The lone technology supplier for the national health record system “captured” the government agency responsible for it in an arrangement that is taking years to unpick but could be...

Panel beaters: Audit lays bare Digital Marketplace misuse

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Canberra’s $15 billion tech panel is being routinely exploited by officials, who use it as a veneer of competition when handing hundreds of millions of dollars to their preferred...

DFAT officials, contractors investigated over dodgy deals

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Investigations have been launched into more than a dozen officials and contractors at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s Australian Passport Office over its cowboy procurements. The probes...

Scandal and audit triggers tighter fraud controls at NHMRC

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Australia’s biggest medical research funding agency will start gaining independent assurances of grant recipients’ fraud risks and mandate reporting of suspected incidents, following a misconduct scandal and a critical...

Govt AI use to go under the microscope

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Parliament’s powerful audit committee will run the ruler over public sector AI use after it was revealed the technology was being deployed widely last year without governance frameworks in...