Review of Administration and Expenditure

June 2023

© Commonwealth of Australia 2023
ISBN: 978-1-76092-426-3

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Abbreviations
Membership of the Committee
Terms of reference
List of recommendations
Chapter 1 - Introduction
  • How the Committee undertakes its review of administration and expenditure
  • Conduct of the inquiry
  • The security environment during 2020-21
  • Continued National Intelligence Community evolution
Chapter 2 - Administration
  • Legislative changes
  • Litigation
  • Strategic direction, priorities and organisation structure
  • Human resource management and demographics
  • Accommodation
  • Security functions and issues
  • Security breaches
  • Security clearances
  • Oversight, accountability and performance evaluation
  • Public relations
  • Committee comment
Chapter 3 - Expenditure
  • Budget and financial performance
  • Financial statement audits
  • Committee comment
Chapter 4 - Areas of focus for 2020-21 review period
  • Impacts of COVID-19 and business continuity
  • Staff complaint investigation and resolution mechanisms
  • Intelligence production through artificial intelligence and machine learning
  • Security classifications and security incident terminology
  • Committee comment
A. List of submissions
B. List of witnesses at classified hearing

Committee Secretariat contact:

Committee Secretary
Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security
PO Box 6021
Parliament House
Canberra ACT 2600

Phone: +61 2 6277 2360
pjcis@aph.gov.au

About this inquiry

The Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security is required under Section 29(1)(a) of the Intelligence Services Act 2001, to conduct an annual review of the administration, expenditure and financial statements of ASIO, ASIS, AGO, DIO, ASD and ONI.