Consideration of Auditor-General Report 6: 2025-26 - Information systems 2025

Overview

Role of the Auditor-General 

The role of the Auditor-General is to provide Parliament with independent assurance of public sector accountability and performance. This is achieved through reporting to Parliament on the results of its financial and performance audits.

About the Auditor-General Report

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This is the Queensland Audit Office’s first report on information systems controls. It is designed to recognise the collective need across government for more focus on the security of information. 

The report provides:

  • a summary of matters identified in the QAO’s information systems audits for state entities in Queensland’s public sector
  • preliminary insights on legacy systems that have passed their lifespan and are no longer supported by their technology providers.

Auditor-General recommendations

The Auditor-General did not make any new recommendations in this report. 

The Auditor-General made recommendations to remedy control deficiencies to the individual entities that were audited. 

The Auditor-General did not make any new recommendations in State entities 2024 (Report 11: 2024–25). Instead, the Auditor-General drew entities’ attention to the recommendations from State entities 2023 (Report 11: 2023–24) that require further action.

Referral to Committee 

Standing Order 194B provides that the Committee of the Legislative Assembly shall as soon as practicable after a report of the Auditor-General is tabled in the Assembly refer that report to the relevant portfolio committee for consideration.

The committee is responsible under section 94 of the Parliament of Queensland Act 2001 for assessing the integrity, economy, efficiency and effectiveness of government financial management by examining government financial documents and considering reports of the Auditor-General.

The Committee of the Legislative Assembly referred this Auditor-General report to the committee on 11 December 2025.

PRIVATE BRIEFING

The committee held a private briefing in Brisbane with the Auditor-General on 4 March 2026 - transcript private briefing (Authorised for publication by the committee on 25 March 2026).

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