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This guide is for Australian Government officials who want to start applying fraud control testing within an Australian Government entity. It contains 10 practical and flexible steps that officials can use to adopt fraud control testing. This guide should be read in conjunction with the International Public Sector Fraud Forum (IPSFF) Fraud Control Testing Framework.

This IPSFF Fraud Control Testing Framework sets out recommended best practice, key principles and materials for conducting fraud control testing within Australian Government entities.

The Centre’s Handbook of Fraud Control Testing Methods provides practical advice on the variety of methods available to test the effectiveness of fraud controls in your organisation.

The Centre's Sharing Data, Information and Intelligence Toolkit provides practical guidance and strategies to help counter-fraud professionals to overcome barriers to data sharing.

The Centre has developed a Fraud Data Capability Assessment Tool for Australian Government entities looking to identify their fraud data capability strengths and areas for improvement.

The CFPC has created a short insight report based on the AIC's annual fraud census data from 2020-21.

Our 2021-22 Activities Snapshot provides a summary of what we achieved, how we are addressing the key fraud problems and what our stakeholders think about us.

The Centre’s Guide on the Practical Use of Fraudster Personas will teach you how to use Personas in 8 very practical ways to underpin your counter fraud capability.

The Centre’s Fraud Data Analytics Leading Practice Guide provides a framework and principles for implementing leading practice fraud data analytics

The Centre's Fraud Data Analytics Catalogue of Techniques provides helpful direction on the types of analytics techniques to explore, and some examples of when and how to deploy them

This guide provides key principles and methods taken from leading practices across public and private sectors. Commonwealth entities can apply or adapt these methods to suit their individual circumstances. The guide will also help fraud specialists, government officials (including policy designers) and senior leaders better understand the fraud risk assessment process and how these assessments can benefit their entity. Entities can use the tools to help them apply the concepts outlined in the guide.

The Grants Administration Counter Fraud Toolkit is designed to help Australian Government entities identify and manage fraud risks in the grants administration process from design to implementation.

This interim report provides initial findings from the COVID-19 vaccine related fraud and security risks inquiry by the Australia Government’s Parliamentary Joint Committee on Law Enforcement. The final report is due to be released in February 2022.

The Suitability Assessment Toolkit will help Australian Government entities make informed decisions about whether third parties are suitable to deliver a program or service on behalf of the Australian Government.

For many organisations, fraud is a problem that can be tackled. The Financial Cost of Fraud report reveals that losses can be, and have been, reduced by up to 40% within 12 months. It is estimated that, were organisations in the UK to correctly measure and introduce measures to reduce fraud, savings of up to £55 billion could be made annually.

This standard outlines an approach for controlling fraud and corruption risks across a range of entities.

This guidance provides government entities with an understanding of the risks involved when using URLs in SMS communications, key principles to consider if it is absolutely necessary to use a URL in SMS communication and importance of a considered and consistent approach to the use of URLs by all government entities.

This toolkit has been developed to help Australian Government entities design and deliver disaster relief and recovery support measures. It features a range of low-friction countermeasures and solutions that might be deployed when delivering these support measures to reduce the risk of fraud.

This toolkit has been developed to help Australian Government entities when designing and delivering economic recovery measures. It provides an overview of common fraud methods to guard against and countermeasures to deploy to reduce the risk of fraud.