Auditing the auditor-general: Grant Hehir’s greatest hits

The Australian National Audit Office website has a quaint little section with speeches and presentations from auditors-general over the years.

With incumbent Grant Hehir announcing his impending retirement, we thought it would be good to look into the digital rabbit hole to see what he has spoken about over the almost nine years he occupied one of the most prominent accountability-related posts in Australia.

The first thing that strikes you is that there are not too many published speeches. The ones that are there deal with some weighty public sector auditing topics: environmental auditing, the role of internal audit and maintaining trust in the parliamentary process.