Where to start

Fraud and corruption are serious risks that can undermine public trust, waste resources, and hinder our ability to deliver outcomes for the Australian community. This page maps out the relevant resources, tools and information across our website to help you:

  • learn more about the fraud problem
  • understand your obligations in dealing with fraud and corruption risks, and
  • build capability through leading practice approaches to prevent, detect and deal with fraud and corruption.
ICON 025: Fraudster profile

Step 1: Understand the fraud problem

Learn more about fraud, how it’s commonly committed, and the real-world impacts it has on individuals, organisations, and communities.

ICON 003: Your obligations

Step 2: Learn about your obligations

Learn more about the Commonwealth Fraud and Corruption Control Framework and the roles and responsibilities of Australian Government officials.

Explore practical guidance about the framework to better understand your obligations.

ICON 001: Discover what we do

Step 3: Develop effective strategies and plans

Learn more about how to define and document your entity’s approach to manage fraud and corruption, how to design fraud resistant policies, conduct risk assessments, effectively control fraud and corruption risk, and develop control plans.

Also learn about how to assess your entity’s counter-fraud and anti-corruption capability to help inform your planning.

ICON 013: Design fraud resistant policies

Step 4: Access tools to prevent, detect and respond to fraud and corruption

Learn more about common fraud and corruption control types and how to use data to counter fraud. Also learn about detecting and investigating fraud and corruption and the importance of recording and reporting incidents.

Explore how to manage fraud and corruption in high risk areas such as procurement, grants administration, disaster relief and recovery, economic recovery measures, and assessing the suitability of third-party providers.

ICON 017: Pressure testing

Step 5: Evaluate and measure the effectiveness of controls

Learn more about ways to assess and evaluate the effectiveness of controls such as control testing and measuring the amount of fraud and error in a program, activity or function.

ICON 005: Report fraud

Step 6: Gain and measure investment in countering fraud

Learn more about how to measure fraud prevention savings and develop a counter fraud investment case to gain greater investment in countering fraud.

ICON 016: Training

Explore resources and training

Learn more about training for Australian Government officials involved in fraud and corruption control, how to connect with the counter fraud community and effective ways to educate and raise awareness about fraud across your entity.

Explore our extensive library of guides, tools and products.

ICON 046: Enable

Learn more about the Commonwealth Fraud Prevention Centre

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