Steve Chapman commenced as the Commonwealth Deputy Auditor-General in July 2005. He has program responsibility for the financial audit and performance audit activities undertaken by the Australian National Audit Office, as well as for its corporate management.
Steve has previously held a number of senior public sector roles, primarily in the areas of tax administration and small business policy and programs. He has also contributed to his profession as a Board Member of CPA Australia, and is a Past President of the ACT Division.
Steve has a strong interest in improving public administration and effective governance in the public sector.
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Audit committees – A keystone of good governance
Panel Discussion: What is good governance?
Tony joined the APS in June 2004 as Director, Corporate Business Management in the Defence Chief Finance Officer Group. In July 2005 he joined the DMO as Director, Materiel Assurance and Audit Management. In 2006 he assumed the position of National Manager of Strategic Management at CRS Australia (Department of Human Services). Since returning to the DMO in early 2007, he has been promoted to Director General Business Improvement in November 2007, assumed the role of Director General Change and Assurance in January 2008 and the role of Director General Governance and Assurance on 1 July 2009. In February 2008 Tony was nominated to undertake the role of DMO Chief Audit Executive.
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Case Study: Integrating governance frameworks to strategic reform
Panel Discussion: What are the major challenges with linking risk management to strategy & planning?
Peter Achterstraat was appointed the Auditor-General of New South Wales on the 25 September 2006. Prior to this, he was the Chief Commissioner of State Revenue for New South Wales from July 1999.
Before being appointed Chief Commissioner, Peter spent 20 years in the Australian Tax Office where he had a variety of roles. He was appointed Deputy Commissioner of Taxation with the Australian Taxation Office in 1987.
Peter holds an honours degree in economics as well as degrees in law and commerce from the Australian National University. He was awarded the Australian Finance Conference prize for Company Finance, and the PricewaterhouseCooper prize for Accounting. In 2006, he was inducted into the Australian National University College of Business and Economics’ Hall of Fame.
Peter is a Barrister of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia, CPA Australia, Fellow of Chartered Secretaries Australia and the Institute of Public Administration Australia.
Peter is currently the President of the Institute of Public Administration Australia (NSW Division
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Governance as an early warning signal – Corporate Governance Lighthouse
Panel Discussion: What is good governance?
Department of Immigration and Citizenship
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Gavin came to Australia in 1991 and before that he had a distinguished career in the UK and Europe in the public, private and community sectors specialising in social and economic policy development and delivery.
Gavin migrated to Australia to work as a Senior Policy Analyst in the then Deputy Prime Minister’s National Housing Strategy Taskforce. After that he held a number of senior policy and service delivery leadership roles in the New South Wales (NSW) State Public Service before re-joining the Australian Public Service in 2001 to lead the service delivery transformation of some 1600 staff across 27 offices as State Director for Centrelink in West Australia.
Gavin returned to Canberra in 2004 to lead Centrelink’s Welfare to Work transition and in 2005 he was seconded to the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet to work on the Government’s Welfare to Work Policy Taskforce that led to major announcements in the 2005 Federal Budget.
He joined DIAC in 2005, as part of the new Secretary’s business and cultural transformation strategy and in 2006 he was asked to the lead the delivery of this strategy as State Director on NSW – DIAC’s largest post consisting of some 1300 staff covering the full range of DIAC’s services.
In 2010 Gavin was asked to return to Canberra to build a new policy, program management and service delivery support Division to lead an intelligence and risk lead approach to risk, fraud and integrity covering all of DIAC’s policies, programs and services and in this year he was also appointed as DIAC’s Chief Risk Officer.
Gavin is a member of a number of DIAC and external Corporate Governance Committees; an Executive Fellow of the Australia and New Zealand School of Government (2006); an alumnus of the Commonwealth Study Conference (2003); and was a Board Member of the NSW Division of the Australia Day Council. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Glasgow University, a postgraduate teaching certificate and was awarded first place in a postgraduate diploma in urban studies. He has been in the SES for over 15 years and at the FAS level for almost half that time.
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Case Study: Embedding risk management in an organisation as part of planning processes & governance arrangements
Driving integrated efficiency & accountability
In an increasingly tight fiscal environment, the public service is driving the need for greater efficiency and leadership in all government operations.
This greater efficiency will require agencies to use resources responsibly and with accountability, and for executives to provide strategic direction to ensure objectives are being achieved.
Successful public sector efficiency demands having a smarter set of practices, policies and procedures that can evolve in a changing and volatile environment.
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Embedding a culture of risk through your governance framework
Pre-Conference Workshop
Tuesday 21st February, 2012
9:00am – 4.00pm
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