Senate debates

Wednesday, 28 February 2007

Matters of Public Importance

Financial Accountability Standards of the Howard Government

4:52 pm

Photo of Michael RonaldsonMichael Ronaldson (Victoria, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you very much, Mr Acting Deputy President. It is entirely appropriate that the Audit Office should investigate the application of the framework we put in place eight years ago, where we shifted the emphasis on budgeting and financial reporting away from an exclusive focus on dollar inputs to place more emphasis on outcomes—what has actually been achieved for the money—and we did that. The Audit Office is quite rightly looking at the success of that, but what we should be told is—(Time expired)

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