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9 April 2024: Almost all government spending for the first six months of 2023/24 was properly authorised and within the law. The single confirmed instance of ...

Observations from our central government work in 2022/23.

Central government: Results of the 2018/19 audits.

Controller update: July to December 2018

1 April 2019: Most government spending for the first six months of 2018/19 has been properly authorised and is within the law. However, we have confirmed two ...

Controller update: January to June 2019

28 November 2019: Most government spending for the second six months of 2018/19 was properly authorised and within the law. However, we have confirmed several ...

Central government: Results of the 2017/18 audits

19 September 2023: This update explains recent events in Parliament’s authorising of public expenditure and our work in monitoring government spending and ...

A transcript for a video about the Controller function.

15 March 2023: Almost all government spending for the first six months of 2022/23 was properly authorised and within the law. The single confirmed instance of ...

15 June 2023: On average, $155 million of government spending in six of the last seven years has lacked proper authority from Parliament. The number of ...