I am pleased to announce the Governor-General has accepted my recommendation to appoint Dr Caralee McLiesh PSM as the Auditor-General for Australia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dr McLiesh\u2019s 10 year term begins on 4 November 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Supported by the Australian National Audit Office, the Auditor-General is an independent officer of the Australian Parliament and is responsible for auditing Commonwealth entities. The Auditor-General plays an important role in upholding accountability and transparency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dr McLiesh is a senior public service leader with more than 25 years\u2019 experience across government, international, not-for-profit and commercial sectors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 2017 she was awarded a Public Service Medal for outstanding public service to social impact investment policy and reform in New South Wales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dr McLiesh has served as the Secretary and Chief Executive of the New Zealand Treasury since 2019. Prior to this, Dr McLiesh was the Managing Director of TAFE NSW and a Deputy Secretary with the NSW Treasury.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This appointment follows a merit-based selection process. In accordance with the Auditor-General Act 1997<\/em>, the Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit provided its approval to Dr McLiesh\u2019s appointment before I made a recommendation to the Governor\u2011General.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I thank the former Auditor-General, Mr Grant Hehir for his significant service in the state and federal public service. I also thank Ms Rona Mellor PSM for acting as Auditor-General since February 2024 until Dr McLiesh\u2019s term commences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I am pleased to announce the Governor-General has accepted my recommendation to appoint Dr Caralee McLiesh PSM as the Auditor-General for Australia. Dr McLiesh\u2019s 10 year term begins on 4 November 2024. Supported by the Australian National Audit Office, the Auditor-General is an independent officer of the Australian Parliament and is responsible for auditing Commonwealth entities. … Continue reading “Appointment of new Auditor-General for Australia”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28208,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28207\/revisions\/28208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}