A high-level taskforce is overhauling the many checks and controls that so obviously failed to stop wrongdoings surrounding the robo-debt scheme, a billion dollars of grants, and PwC’s confidentiality breaches.
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Some might say the system of checks and balances in public administration is working. Or not.
Three national audit office reports into a billion dollars of ministerial office sports, health and car park grants; the tax practitioner board’s findings regarding former PwC tax partner Peter Collins; and the soon-to-be released findings of the royal commission into the robo-debt fiasco are all arguably examples where institutional oversight of government revealed gross wrongdoing.
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Original URL: https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/why-the-public-service-is-missing-or-ignoring-rorts-and-wrongdoing-20230614-p5dgkj
