Corporate governance

The Board and ARPC’s leadership team remain committed to maintaining the highest standard of corporate governance and continue to monitor corporate governance trends from a range of sources across government and the private sector. ARPC’s corporate governance framework is underpinned by several key policies such as the Board Charter, the Audit & Compliance Committee Charter and the Enterprise Risk Management Framework (ERMF).

Statement of Expectations

As part of the government’s response to the Review of the Corporate Governance of Statutory Authorities and Office Holders, authored by Mr John Uhrig, the (then) Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer, the Hon Chris Pearce MP, wrote the following letter to the Chairman of the ARPC setting out his expectations of ARPC.

In response to the Minister’s letter outlining his expectations for the ARPC, the Statement of Intent was issued by the (then) Chairman on 24 July 2007.

Senate Orders

Entity Contracts

The Senate Order on Entity Contracts (also known as as the Murray Motion) requires agencies subject to the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013 (Cth) (PGPA Act) to make available on the internet a list of contracts $100,000 (GST inclusive) or more, which are current or entered into during the previous 12 months.

Indexed lists of departmental and agency files

The Senate Order on Indexed Lists of Departmental and Agency Files (also known as the Harradine Report) requires ARPC to make available on the internet an indexed list of the titles of all policy files created in the organisation every six months.