Public Sector Regulations 2025

A public sector agency's annual report to the agency's Minister must contain information (including relevant statistics) with respect to the following:

the functions and objectives of the agency;

the legislation administered by the agency;

the organisation of the agency;

the agency's relationship to other agencies within the Minister's area of responsibility;

the agency's operations and initiatives (including an assessment of their effectiveness and efficiency);

the agency's strategic plans and the relationship of the plans to

Government objectives;

executive employment in the agency;

employment opportunity programs;

the agency's performance management and development systems (including an assessment of their effectiveness and efficiency);

the number of instances and nature of fraud detected in the agency and the strategies implemented to control and prevent fraud;

the number of occasions on which public interest information has been disclosed to a responsible officer of the agency under the

Public Interest Disclosure

Act 2018;

the financial performance of the agency including—

audited financial statements prepared in accordance with the

Treasurer's instructions and the report of the Auditor‑General on the financial statements; and

any other financial information in respect of the agency's operations required to be reported to Parliament under another

Act;

the work health, safety and rehabilitation programs of the agency (including an evaluation of the programs and their effectiveness);

the extent to which external consultants have been engaged by the agency, the nature of the work undertaken by the consultants and the total cost to the agency of the consultancies.