Andrew Southcott (Boothby, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

by leave—on behalf of the Joint Standing Committee of Public Accounts and Audit, I wish to make a statement on the appointment of the Independent Auditor of the Australian National Audit Office. The Joint Standing Committee of Public Accounts and Audit is required under the Public Accounts and Audit Committee Act 1951 to endorse the proposed appointment of any person to the office of Independent Auditor before that appointment can be recommended to the Governor-General. The committee is also obliged to report its decision to parliament. The Independent Auditor is a person appointed from the private sector on a part-time basis to serve as an external auditor to the Audit Office. I take this opportunity to advise the House that on 29 May the committee unanimously approved the appointment of Mr Peter van Dongen, the current national assurance managing partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers.