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The Australian Attorney-General’s Department represents Australia as a member of the Pacific Island Law Officers’ Network (PILON). Through PILON’s Corruption Working Group, Australia supports Pacific Island countries to combat corruption. Over the past few years the PILON Corruption Working Group has focused on strengthening whistleblower protection initiatives in the Pacific Islands.

Counter fraud specialists from the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia came together in a week-long event to share key insights and good practices on the growing societal and economic issue of fraud.

Comcover is the Australian Government’s self-managed insurance fund. The Department of Finance administers Comcover for the benefit of fund members.

Fraud controls are individual measures, processes or functions that help entities prevent, detect and respond to fraud.

Interning at the Commonwealth Fraud Prevention

We’ve examined responses to the annual Australian Institute of Criminology Fraud Questionnaire to work out whether entity size affects fraud prevention, detection and response.

We have collaborated with international and Australian partners to release the latest International Public Sector Fraud Forum publication - A Guide to Pressure Testing. Find out more about the latest leading practice guidance and how public bodies across the world are testing the effectiveness of fraud controls.

Learn about our newly developed Launch Support Package and collaboration with the Australian Passport Office.

How you can access and use Australian Business Register (ABR) data to make decisions and detect fraudulent behaviour.