Day Two
Wednesday 10th February, 2010

8.30: Registration, coffee & networking
9.00: Welcoming remarks from the Chair Professor Mark Evans,
Director,
ANZSOG Institute for Governance
THE FUTURE OF PUBLIC SECTOR BOARDS
9.10: Appointment processes to public sector bodies: Where are we at and where to next?

  • Current practices at the Commonwealth level
  • Comparisons with overseas
  • Issues for Australia: What needs to be done?
Emeritus Professor Meredith Edwards,
University of Canberra
9.50: Governance and the National Water Plan

  • Challenges and governance requirements in delivering the Government’s national Plan - “Water for the Future”
  • What has been the experience so far, what’s worked, what’s not – lessons for the future.
Mark Kwiatkowski, Assistant Secretary,
Project Management & Governance Branch,Water Group,
Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and The Arts
10.30: Morning tea, refreshments & networking
DELIVERING GOOD GOVERNANCE IN PRACTICE
11.00: Examining the failure of government agencies to exercise statutory functions: Experience of Ombudsman Victoria in investigating agencies

  • Failing to exercise statutory functions
  • Failing to exercise statutory powers
  • Misusing their powers
  • Failing to apply the same standards and/or the level of scrutiny to themselves as they impose on others
John Taylor,
Deputy Ombudsman Victoria
11.40: Essential tools of governance: The Good Governance Guide – a one-stop-shop to managing governance

  • Linking governance frameworks to accountability requirements and performance
  • Using a risk assessment/gap analysis approach to manage governance performance
  • Measuring governance performance across the public sector
Penny Bird,
Executive Director Public Sector Practice,
Office of the Public Sector Standards
Commissioner, WA
12.20: Lunch
1.30: The role of audit & risk management in delivering good governance

  • A new Internal Audit and Risk Management Policy for the NSW public sector
  • Behavioural and change management processes to support the implementation of the policy
Philip Mussared,
Deputy Secretary,
NSW Treasury
2.10: Strengthening governance: Leveraging external audit

  • Changing service delivery models and the challenges these present to effective governance
  • The role of external audit and how the governing body can leverage this
Andrew Greaves,
Assistant Auditor General, Audit Performance
Victorian Audit Office
2.50: Afternoon Tea And Networking
3.20: Global risk policy question: Should risk management be mandated?

  • Could the global financial crisis have been avoided if risk management had been mandated: what are the arguments for and against mandating risk management?
  • If it is to be mandated, what form of regulation should be considered?
Admiral Chris Barrie AC (R’td), Patron,
Australian Risk Policy Institute & Former Chief, Australian Defence Force
4.00: Striking the right balance between compliance & performance for service delivery

  • Why compliance is only one element of good governance
  • The importance and benefits of embedding compliance in the company culture so it becomes business as usual
  • Allocating responsibility and accountability to drive continuous improvement in governance performance
Martin Tolar, CEO,
Australasian Compliance Institute
4.40: Closing remarks from the chair
5.20: End of Conference
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