Part of report |
Description |
Requirement |
Letter of transmittal |
Mandatory |
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Table of contents |
Mandatory |
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Index |
Mandatory |
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Glossary [acronyms and abbreviations] |
Mandatory |
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Contact officer(s) |
Mandatory |
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Internet home page address and internet address for report |
Mandatory |
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Defence overview |
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Review by Secretary |
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Review by departmental secretary |
Mandatory |
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Summary of significant issues and developments |
Suggested |
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Overview of department’s performance and financial results |
Suggested |
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Outlook for following year |
Suggested |
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Significant issues and developments—portfolio |
Portfolio departments— suggested |
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Departmental overview |
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Role and functions |
Mandatory |
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Organisational structure |
Mandatory |
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Outcome and programme structure |
Mandatory |
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Where outcome and programme structure differs from Portfolio Budget Statements, Portfolio Additional Estimates Statements or other portfolio statements accompanying any other additional appropriation bills, details of variation and |
Mandatory |
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Portfolio structure |
Portfolio departments— mandatory |
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Performance |
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Review of performance during the year in relation to programmes and contribution to outcomes |
Mandatory |
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Actual performance in relation to deliverables and key performance indicators set out in Portfolio Budget Statements, Portfolio Additional Estimates Statements or other portfolio statements |
Mandatory |
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Where performance targets differ from the Portfolio Budget Statements, Portfolio Additional Estimates Statements, details of both former and new targets, and reasons for the change |
Mandatory |
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Narrative discussion and analysis of performance |
Mandatory |
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Trend information |
Mandatory |
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Significant changes in nature of principal functions/services |
Suggested |
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Performance of purchaser/provider arrangements |
If applicable, suggested |
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Factors, events or trends influencing departmental performance |
Suggested |
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Contribution of risk management in achieving objectives |
Suggested |
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Performance against service charter customer service standards, complaints data, and the department’s response to complaints |
If applicable, mandatory |
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Discussion and analysis of the department’s financial performance |
Mandatory |
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Discussion of any significant changes in financial results from the prior year, from budget or anticipated to have a significant impact on future operations |
Mandatory |
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Agency resource statement and summary resource tables by outcomes |
Mandatory |
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Management and accountability |
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Corporate governance |
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Agency heads are required to certify their agency’s actions in dealing with fraud |
Mandatory |
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Statement of the main corporate governance practices |
Mandatory |
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Names of the senior executive and their responsibilities |
Suggested |
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Senior management committees and their roles |
Suggested |
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Corporate and operational plans and associated performance reporting and review |
Suggested |
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Internal audit arrangements including approach adopted to identifying areas of significant financial or operational risk and arrangements to manage those risks |
Suggested |
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Policy and practices on the establishment and maintenance of appropriate ethical standards |
Suggested |
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How nature and amount of remuneration for SES officers |
Suggested |
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External scrutiny |
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Significant developments in external scrutiny |
Mandatory |
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Judicial decisions and decisions of administrative tribunals and by the Australian Information Commissioner |
Mandatory |
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Reports by the Auditor-General, a parliamentary committee, the Commonwealth Ombudsman or an agency capability review |
Mandatory |
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Management of human resources |
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Assessment of effectiveness in managing and developing human resources to achieve departmental objectives |
Mandatory |
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Workforce planning, staff retention and turnover |
Suggested |
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Impact and features of enterprise or collective agreements, individual flexibility arrangements, determinations, common law contracts and Australian workplace agreements |
Suggested |
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Training and development undertaken and its impact |
Suggested |
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Work health and safety performance |
Suggested |
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Productivity gains |
Suggested |
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Statistics on staffing |
Mandatory |
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Statistics on employees who identify as Indigenous |
Mandatory |
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Enterprise or collective agreements, individual flexibility arrangements, determinations, common law contracts and Australian workplace agreements |
Mandatory |
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Performance pay |
Mandatory |
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Assets management |
Assessment of effectiveness of assets management |
If applicable, mandatory |
Purchasing |
Assessment of purchasing against core policies and principles |
Mandatory |
Consultants |
The annual report must include a summary statement detailing the number of new consultancy services contracts let during the year; the total actual expenditure on all new consultancy contracts let during the year (inclusive of GST); the number of ongoing consultancy contracts that were active in the reporting year; and the total actual expenditure in the reporting year on the ongoing consultancy contracts (inclusive of GST). The annual report must include a statement noting that information on contracts and consultancies is available through the AusTender website |
Mandatory |
Australian National Audit Office Access Clauses |
Absence of provisions in contracts allowing access by the Auditor-General |
Mandatory |
Exempt contracts |
Contracts exempted from publication in AusTender |
Mandatory |
Small business |
Procurement initiatives to support small business |
Mandatory |
Financial statements (Volume 2) |
Mandatory |
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Other mandatory information |
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Work health and safety (Schedule 2, Part 4 of the Work Health and Safety Act 2011) |
Mandatory |
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Advertising and market research (section 311A of the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918) and statement on advertising campaigns |
Mandatory |
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Ecologically sustainable development and environmental performance (section 516A of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999) |
Mandatory |
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Compliance with the agency’s obligations under the |
If applicable, mandatory |
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Grant programmes |
Mandatory |
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Disability reporting—explicit and transparent reference to agency-level information available through other reporting mechanisms |
Mandatory |
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Information Publication Scheme statement |
Mandatory |
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Correction of material errors in previous annual report |
If applicable, mandatory |
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Agency resource statements and resources for outcomes |
Mandatory |
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List of requirements |
Mandatory |