Compliance index

Letter of transmittal
Table of contents
Alphabetical index (PDF 664 KB)
Glossary and abbreviations list
Contact officer(s)
About this report | Appendix 4 | Appendix 5
Internet home page address and internet address for report
Clerk's review
- Review by the Clerk
Departmental overview
- Overview description of department
- Role and functions
- Organisational structure
- Outcome and output structure
- Where outcome and program structures differ from portfolio budget statements or other portfolio statements accompanying any other additional appropriation bills (other portfolio statements), details of variation and reasons for change
  N/A
- Portfolio structure
  N/A
Report on performance
- Review of performance during the year in relation to programs and contribution to outcome
- Actual performance in relation to deliverables and performance indicators set out in portfolio budget statements or other portfolio statements
  Clerk's Office | Table Office | Procedure Office | Committee Office | Black Rod's Office
- Where performance targets differ from the portfolio budget statements, details of both former and new targets and reasons for the change
  None
- Narrative discussion and analysis of performance
- Trend information
- Performance of purchaser/provider arrangements
  None
- Significant changes in nature of principal functions/services
  None
- Factors, events or trends influencing departmental performance
  Overview | Clerk's Office | Table Office | Procedure Office | Committee Office | Black Rod's Office
- Contribution of risk management in achieving objectives
- Social justice and equity impacts
- Performance against service charter customer service standards, complaints data, and the department's response to complaints
- Discussion and analysis of the department's financial performance
  Clerk's review | Management of financial resources
- Discussion of any significant changes from the prior year or from budget
  None
- Agency resource statement and summary resource tables by outcomes
- Developments since the end of the financial year that have affected or may significantly affect the department's operations or financial results in future
  None
Management and accountability
- Corporate governance
  - Statement of the main corporate governance practices in place
  - Names of the senior executive and their responsibilities
  - Senior management committees and their roles
  - Corporate and operational planning and associated performance reporting and review
  - Approach adopted to identifying areas of significant financial or operational risk
  - Agency head's certification that agency complies with the Commonwealth Fraud Control Guidelines
  - Policy and practices on the establishment and maintenance of appropriate ethical standards
  - How nature and amount of remuneration for SES officers is determined
- External scrutiny
  - Significant developments in external scrutiny
  - Judicial decisions and decisions of administrative tribunals
  - Reports by the Auditor-General, a parliamentary committee or the Commonwealth Ombudsman
- Management of human resources
  - Assessment of effectiveness in managing and developing human resources to achieve departmental objectives
  - Workforce planning, staff turnover and retention
  - Impact and features of enterprise or collective agreements, determinations, common law contracts and Australian workplace agreements
  - Training and development undertaken and its impact
  - Occupational health and safety performance
  - Productivity gains
  - Statistics on staffing
  - Enterprise or collective agreements, individual flexibility arrangements, determinations, common law contracts and Australian workplace agreements
  - Performance pay
- Assessment of effectiveness of assets management
- Assessment of purchasing against core policies and principles
- Consultants
  - Summary statement
  - Statement that information on contracts and consultancies is available through AusTender websit
  - Additional information in required proforma
  - Absence of provisions in contracts allowing access by the Auditor-General
    None
  - Contracts exempt from the AusTender
    None
- Disability action plan
Financial statements
Other statutory reporting
- Occupational health and safety (section 74 of the Occupational Health and Safety Act 1991)
  Management of human resources | Appendix 3
- )Freedom of Information Act 1982Freedom of information (subsection 8(1) of the
- ) and statement on advertising campaignsCommonwealth Electoral Act 1918Advertising and market research (section 311A of the
- )Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999Ecologically sustainable development and environmental performance (section 516A of the
Other
- Grant programs
  None
- Disability reporting – explicit and transparent reference to agency-level information available through other reporting mechanisms
- Correction of material errors in previous annual report
  None
- Compliance index