External audit

During 2018–19 the Australian National Audit Office reported on two PM&C portfolio-specific performance audits:

• Management of the Regional Network (tabled 28 September 2018)
• Evaluating Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Programs (tabled 18 June 2019).

PM&C was involved in three multi-portfolio performance audits:

• Implementation of the Annual Performance Statements Requirements 2017–18
  (tabled 17 December 2018)
• Closing the Gap (tabled 20 February 2019)
• Coordination Arrangements of Australian Government Entities Operating in Torres Strait
  (tabled 29 May 2019).

Judicial decisions and other external scrutiny

PM&C has not been subject to any judicial decisions or decisions of administrative tribunals or the Information Commissioner in 2018–19 that have had, or may have, a significant effect on PM&C’s operations.

PM&C is subject to the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (FOI Act) and complies with the requirements of the Information Publication Scheme (IPS) to publish a range of information on its website. PM&C has prepared an IPS agency plan and published it on the PM&C website in accordance with subsection 8(1) of the FOI Act.