Corruption Audits - 2017 - 2019
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The report's own summary: Summary, pages 4 to 5
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The CCC audited how five Queensland councils administered councillor discretionary funds, focusing on accountability, transparency and corruption risks.
Probity in councillors' use of councillor discretionary funds - October 2019, page 4
It also assessed how two public authorities handled corruption allegations concerning grants and funding.
Probity in councillors' use of councillor discretionary funds - October 2019, page 4
The CCC identified 11 areas needing improvement, including incomplete applications, conflicts of interest and monitoring of spending.
Probity in councillors' use of councillor discretionary funds - October 2019, page 4 · Probity in councillors' use of councillor discretionary funds - October 2019, page 5
The CCC was satisfied with the handling of the seven complaints it reviewed.
Probity in councillors' use of councillor discretionary funds - October 2019, page 22
It recommended improvements to council controls and moving discretionary funding into community grants programs with stronger assessment rules.
Probity in councillors' use of councillor discretionary funds - October 2019, page 5
In the body's own words
- Finding
The expenditure of funds at each councillor’s discretion created obvious risks in relation to the potential for fraud, corruption and abuse.
Probity in councillors' use of councillor discretionary funds - October 2019, page 4
Findings and recommendations
Allegations are not findings. A commission's finding or opinion of corrupt conduct or misconduct is not a finding that a person is guilty of a criminal offence, and the commissions say so in their reports.
No findings or recommendations are reproduced in this record. This does not establish that the report contains none.
Published responses
No published response was found.
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Probity in councillors' use of councillor discretionary funds - October 2019
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Responding to corruption related to failure of duty - June 2019
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Integrity in procurement decision making: An audit of Queensland Health and other public sector agencies - May 2019
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Assessing complaints of corruption: the effectiveness of the Queensland Police Service’s policies and practices - December 2018
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Managing corruption risks associated with secondary employment - October 2018
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Managing the security risk associated with chemicals of security concern - October 2018
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Read our 2017 - 2019 Corruption Audit Plan (PDF)
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Corruption Audits - 2017 - 2019
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- Reports from 1991 to about 2011 are listed on the CCC site but many pages link no report document; those records carry the page summary only, with findings and recommendations not extracted.
- Scanned reports without a text layer are not OCR'd; their findings and recommendations are not extracted.
- Findings and opinions are not extracted except where a report states it makes no finding about any person (section 48B of the Crime and Corruption Act 2001). Pre-2025 reports state outcomes in narrative form, which is not converted into findings.
- Recommendations are extracted only from a complete numbered run; reports that number recommendations differently, or set them inside narrative chapters only, are marked not_extracted.
- Government responses are recorded where the CCC report or public hearing page links one; the responses themselves (often Queensland Parliament tabled papers or ministerial statements) are linked, not fetched.
- The 1989 Fitzgerald Inquiry report, which the CCC hosts, is a commission of inquiry report and is not included here.