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Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit

28 April 2026

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The committee opens the hearing on Commonwealth financial statements, examines systemic section 83 issues and legislative compliance, and questions Health, ACIAR and APVMA on specific breaches involving aged care subsidies, employment cost appropriations and uncollected levies on permitted products.

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Opening and financial statements audit context

13:08

Hearing opening and ANAO audit overview

13:08

Section 83 breaches — ANAO: scope and causes

22:15

Department of Health — centralising section 83 compliance

26:06

Aged care subsidies — $368m overpayments and reconciliation

34:18

ACIAR — misclassification of employment costs between appropriations

53:16

APVMA — uncollected levies on permitted unregistered products

01:03:37

IT access controls — Defence, APS and NBN Co

01:16:29

Second session opening — Defence IT control finding resolved

01:16:29

Systemic IT control risks — lessons for APS and Finance’s role

01:32:44

NBN Co — multi‑disciplinary fix to access management

02:02:14

AI and automation in Commonwealth administration

02:21:03

AI session opening — DTA on ERPs, AI and financial systems

02:21:03

Health — cautious AI use and automated aged care assessment

02:32:38

Governance standards for AI and automated decision‑making

02:50:57

ATO — mature AI use, Copilot rollout and governed experimentation

02:53:43

APS‑wide AI capability, GovAI platform and monitoring use

03:03:08

Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit

28 April 2026

Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit Wed, 29 Apr 2026 Australian Parliament

12:02 - 12:04

Speaker 72

Jenny, do you mind saying something? Yes.

12:04 - 12:06

I can hear you, chair.

12:12 - 12:14

Do you mind doing one more test, Jenny?

12:14 - 12:16

Check one, two, three.

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