Corporate governance

External scrutiny

Judicial decisions and decisions of administrative tribunals

ASADA's involvement in hearings before the Administrative Appeals Tribunal is explained under 'Results management' under Output 1.3 - Enforcement Program.

In summary, there were three applications before the Administrative Appeals Tribunal challenging ASADA's decision to enter an athlete's name (and other relevant details) onto its RoF. One application has been dismissed and the other two are pending.

The ACT Magistrates Court made a decision in late March 2007, relating to criminal proceedings against a former employee of ASADA. The employee was convicted of defrauding ASADA of $25,000 and was given a suspended sentence. The money has been repaid in full.

Auditor-General reports

In 2006-07, the ANAO tabled 53 reports that made recommendations relevant
to ASADA's operations. A key responsibility of the Audit Committee is to oversee
the implementation of the recommendations contained in these reports.

Reports that are relevant to the operations of ASADA are:

  • Audit report No 5, 2006-07 Senate Order for the departmental and agency contracts
  • Audit report No 6, 2006-07 Record keeping, including the management of electronic records
  • Audit report No 15, 2006-07 Audit of financial statements of Australian Government entities for the period ended 30 June 2006
  • Audit report No 21, 2006-07 Implementation of the revised Commonwealth Procurement Guidelines
  • Audit report No 22, 2006-07 Management of intellectual property in the Australian Government sector
  • Audit report No 23, 2006-07 Application of the Outcomes and Outputs Framework
  • Audit report No 43, 2006-07 Managing security issues in procurement and contracting
  • Audit report No 48, 2006-07 Superannuation payments for contractors working for the Australian Government: follow-up audit
  • Audit report No 49, 2006-07 Non-APS workers, and
  • Audit report No 51, 2006-07 Interim phase of the audit of financial statements of General government sector agencies for the year ending 30 June 2007.

Parliamentary committee reports

There are no relevant reports.

Commonwealth Ombudsman reports

ASADA received no reports from the Commonwealth Ombudsman in 2006-07.

Freedom of information

In 2006-07 ASADA received six requests under the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (FOI Act). The requests covered a broad range of documents, including reports on testing and investigations, and information relating to contracts with sports.

We have provided the following information to meet the requirements of Subsection 8(1) of the FOI Act:

  • the functions, powers and delegations of ASADA in accordance with the ASADA Act are explained in Appendix E
  • information about the categories of documents that are maintained by ASADA
    is included in Appendix G and
  • the process to make a formal request for access to ASADA's documents under the FOI Act is detailed in Appendix G.

We have an established FOI Policy and Privacy Policy.

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