The Department of Finance has launched a new website destined to become a central address for all Government annual reports, plans and other documents.
The Department unveiled the new Transparency Portal at transparency.gov.au, declaring it marks the beginning of full digitisation for Commonwealth plans and reports.
Minister for Finance and the Public Service, Senator Mathias Cormann said transparency.gov.au would contain the annual budgets and audited expenditure of all Commonwealth Government bodies.
“People can use this single website to search for data and to make instant comparisons of data between Government bodies, using viewer-generated tables and graphs,” Senator Cormann said.
He said the website already contained annual reports from the 2018 pilot program for 14 Departments and other Agencies, including both large and small organisations.
“The Government will require all Commonwealth Government bodies to publish their 2018-19 annual reports on the Transparency Portal later this year,” Senator Cormann said.
“The Government will expand the data holdings on the portal next year.”
He said the website also included a selection of corporate plans and portfolio budget statements for four Departments.
“This demonstrates the ability within the Transparency Portal to read between intended budgets, performance targets and results; supporting the comparison of forecasts and actual outcomes for each year,” the Minister said.
The portal was launched at the Modernising the Public Service exhibition in Canberra.
The new Transparency Portal can be accessed at this PS News link.
