I intend to recommend to the Governor‑General that he
appoint Mr Grant Hehir as the next Auditor‑General
for the Commonw. ealth for 10 years, commencing on 11 June 2015.
The ANAO has a rare history of achievement.
The NSW Auditor-General and the Audit Office worked very
closely with Legislative Assembly Public Accounts
Committee in Sydney and I assume the same will apply for the
Joint Parliamentary Committee in Canberra….Reviews of NSW AGs Reports
The ANAO has a rare history of achievement. The office is best understood in an older public officer tradition: a person holding appointment under the Crown, not subject to direction by ministers nor, indeed, anyone else, and reporting directly to Parliament. The misleading nature of the "officer of the Parliament" idea is illustrated by other provisions of the auditor-general legislation concerning, for example, the staffing of the Australian National Audit Office under the Public Service Act, not the parliamentary staff legislation. When considering Westminster governance, it is also generally unwise to talk about independence except in relation to the judiciary. In the end, pace Montesquieu, everything, to some degree, comes within the pale of Parliament. (by J. R. Nethercote is an adjunct professor at the Australian Catholic University's Canberra campus)
The ANAO has a rare history of achievement. The office is best understood in an older public officer tradition: a person holding appointment under the Crown, not subject to direction by ministers nor, indeed, anyone else, and reporting directly to Parliament. The misleading nature of the "officer of the Parliament" idea is illustrated by other provisions of the auditor-general legislation concerning, for example, the staffing of the Australian National Audit Office under the Public Service Act, not the parliamentary staff legislation. When considering Westminster governance, it is also generally unwise to talk about independence except in relation to the judiciary. In the end, pace Montesquieu, everything, to some degree, comes within the pale of Parliament. (by J. R. Nethercote is an adjunct professor at the Australian Catholic University's Canberra campus)
The auditors-general: unsung heroes of administrative reform
John Menadue: There are many key public issues that we must address such as climate change, growing inequality, tax avoidance, budget repair, an ageing population, lifting our productivity and our treatment of asylum seekers. But our capacity to address these and other important issues is becoming very difficult because of the power of vested interests with their lobbying power to influence governments in a quite disproportionate way. Vested interests and the subversion of the public interest?
Jane Alpert, Growing Up Underground ...One of the best 1960s memoirs, she goes from being a Swarthmore radical to a bomber who tries too hard to please her boyfriend, to a reconstructed peaceful feminist. This book is notable for how it combines extreme self-awareness and extreme self-delusion, often on the same page
Fraud has a long prehistory that can be traced back to the swindles of wily Odysseus and the Old Testament ruse in which Jacob tricks his twin brother out of his birthright, but I’ll pick up the story in the Middle Ages. Dante Alighieri, the poet laureate of fraudulence, devotes a full thirteen cantos in hisInferno to its many varieties—pandering, flattery, office-selling, fortune-telling, strife-stirring, hypocrisy, thievery, false counsel, sowing discord, lying, and betrayal, to name a few—and to the merciless but deserved punishments visited upon its perpetrators. His successor in fourteenth-century England was a brilliant but less-recognized chronicler of fraudulent practice, the poet John Gower
History of Fraud
John Menadue: There are many key public issues that we must address such as climate change, growing inequality, tax avoidance, budget repair, an ageing population, lifting our productivity and our treatment of asylum seekers. But our capacity to address these and other important issues is becoming very difficult because of the power of vested interests with their lobbying power to influence governments in a quite disproportionate way. Vested interests and the subversion of the public interest?
Jane Alpert, Growing Up Underground ...One of the best 1960s memoirs, she goes from being a Swarthmore radical to a bomber who tries too hard to please her boyfriend, to a reconstructed peaceful feminist. This book is notable for how it combines extreme self-awareness and extreme self-delusion, often on the same page
Tracking Federal Funds: USAspending.gov and Other Data
Sources. Merete F. Gerli, Information Research Specialist. May 13,
2015.
“Finding data on federal grants and
contracts awarded to states and congressional districts, local governments,
nonprofit organizations, contractors, and other eligible entities may present
challenges. The official website, USAspending.gov, at http://www.usaspending.gov, collects data on grants, loans,
insurance, assistance, and contracts, and it presents various searching and
downloading options to Congress and the public. Because of continued data
quality problems identified by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO),
researchers need to be aware that search results may be incomplete or have
inaccuracies. USAspending.gov was created under P.L. 109-282, the Federal
Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 (FFATA), and is to be
enhanced by requirements of P.L. 113-101, the Digital Accountability and
Transparency Act of 2014 (DATA Act).”
Fraud has a long prehistory that can be traced back to the swindles of wily Odysseus and the Old Testament ruse in which Jacob tricks his twin brother out of his birthright, but I’ll pick up the story in the Middle Ages. Dante Alighieri, the poet laureate of fraudulence, devotes a full thirteen cantos in hisInferno to its many varieties—pandering, flattery, office-selling, fortune-telling, strife-stirring, hypocrisy, thievery, false counsel, sowing discord, lying, and betrayal, to name a few—and to the merciless but deserved punishments visited upon its perpetrators. His successor in fourteenth-century England was a brilliant but less-recognized chronicler of fraudulent practice, the poet John Gower
History of Fraud