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PART 4—WHAT WE DO
16. Aboriginal Hostels Limited
17. ASC Pty Ltd
18. Australian Accounting
Standards Board
19. Australian Bureau
of Statistics
20. Australian Competition and
Consumer Commission
21. Australian Electoral
Commission
22. Australian Film Television
and Radio School
23. Australian Financial
Security Authority
24. Australian Human
Rights Commission
25. Australian Institute of
Marine Science
26. Australian National
Maritime Museum
27. Australian National
University
28. Australian Nuclear Science
and Technology Organisation
29. Australian Radiation
Protection and Nuclear
Safety Agency
30. Australian Rail Track
Corporation
31. Australian Securities and
Investments Commission
32. Australian Skills
Quality Authority
33. Australian Trade
Commission (“Austrade”)
34. Australian Transaction
Reports and Analysis Centre
35. Australian Transport
Safety Bureau
36. Australian War Memorial
37. Bureau of Meteorology
38. Civil Aviation
Safety Authority
39. Comcare
40. Commonwealth Director of
Public Prosecutions
41. Commonwealth
Scientific and Industrial
Research Organisation
42. Defence Housing Australia
101
(aggregated
total of
all PIDs
received
by these
agencies)
This section
aggregates
data for
agencies
reporting
four or
fewer PIDs
received
during the
reporting
period.
• Conduct that may result in disciplinary
action (30%)
• Maladministration (25%)
• Commonwealth, State or Territory (11%)
• Conduct that results in, or that increases,
the risk of danger to the health or safety of
one or more persons (9%)
• Abuse of public office (6%)
• Conduct engaged in for the purpose of
corruption (5%)
• Wastage of Commonwealth resources
(including money and property) (5%)
• Abuse of public trust (4%)
• Contravention of a law of the
• Fabrication, falsification, plagiarism or
deception in relation to scientific research
(2%)
• Perversion of the course of justice (2%)
• Conduct that endangers, or risks
endangering the environment (1%)
84 | COMMONWEALTH OMBUDSMAN ANNUAL REPORT | 2015–16