Senate debates
Wednesday, 28 February 2007
Matters of Public Importance
Financial Accountability Standards of the Howard Government
4:52 pm
Michael 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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