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Report highlights: Flood housing response

What this report is aboutExtreme rainfall across eastern Australia in 2021 and 2022 led to a series of major flood events in New South Wales.This audit assessed how effectively the NSW Government provided emergency accommodation and temporary housing in response to the early 2022 Northern Rivers and late 2022 Central West flood events.

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Report highlights: Regional Road Safety

What this report is about Around one-third of the state’s population lives in regional NSW, but deaths on regional roads make up around two-thirds of the state’s road toll. Transport for NSW (TfNSW) is responsible for managing road safety outcomes across the NSW road network. This audit assessed the effectiveness of TfNSW’s delivery of road safety strategies, plans and policies in regional areas. The NSW Road Safety Action Plan 2022–2026 has the stated goal of ‘no death or serious injury occurring on the road transport network’ by 2050.

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Report Highlights: Stronger Communities 2023

What this report is about Results of the Stronger Communities financial statement audits for the year ended 30 June 2023.  What we found Unqualified audit opinions were issued on all completed Stronger Communities portfolio agencies. Machinery of government changes during the year returned the sports-related agencies to the Stronger Communities portfolio.

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Report highlights: Natural disasters

What this report is about This report draws together the financial impact of natural disasters on agencies integral to the response and impact of natural disasters during 2021–22. What we found Over the 2021–22 financial year $1.4 billion from a budget of $1.9 billion was spent by the NSW Government in response to natural disasters. Total expenses were less than the budget due to underspend in the following areas:

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Report highlights: Managing the affairs of people under financial management and/or guardianship orders

What this report is about This audit assessed whether NSW Trustee and Guardian is effectively delivering public guardianship and financial management services in line with legislative requirements and standards. What we found NSW Trustee and Guardian is delivering guardianship and financial management services in line with its broad legal authority. However, NSW Trustee and Guardian does not have sufficient oversight to ensure that its services are consistent with legislative principles which aim to promote positive client outcomes.

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Report highlights: Planning and managing bushfire equipment

This audit assessed the effectiveness of the NSW Rural Fire Service (RFS) and local councils in planning and managing equipment for bushfire prevention, mitigation, and suppression. What we found The RFS has focused its fleet development activity on modernising and improving the safety of its firefighting fleet, and on the purchase of new firefighting aircraft.

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Report highlights: Coordination of the response to COVID-19 (June to November 2021)

This audit assessed the effectiveness of NSW Government agencies’ coordination of the response to COVID-19, with a focus on the Delta variant outbreak in the Dubbo and Fairfield Local Government Areas (LGA) between June and November 2021. We audited five agencies - the Department of Premier and Cabinet, NSW Health, the NSW Police Force, Resilience NSW and the Department of Customer Service.

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Report highlights: Stronger Communities 2022

Results of the Stronger Communities cluster agencies' financial statement audits for the year ended 30 June 2022.

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Report highlights: Audit Insights 2018-2022

In this report, we have analysed the key findings and recommendations from our audit reports over the past four years. This analysis includes financial audits, performance audits, and compliance audits of state and local government entities that were tabled in NSW Parliament between July 2018 and February 2022. The report is framed by recognition that the past four years have seen significant challenges and emergency events.

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Report highlights: COVID-19: response, recovery and impact

This report draws together the financial impact of COVID-19 on the agencies which were integral to the response across the state government sector of New South Wales. What we found Since the COVID-19 pandemic hit NSW in January 2020 until 30 June 2021, $7.5 billion has been spent by state government agencies for health and economic stimulus. The response was largely funded by borrowings. The key areas of spending since the start of COVID-19 in NSW to 30 June 2021 were: