Public Management Reform Agenda
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16 July 2014
New framework terminology
With the commencement of the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act
2013 (PGPA Act), new terminology for the resource management framework also came into
effect. The key terminology entities should be familiar with are included in the table below:
FMA /CAC Act
PGPA Act
agency / authority / body
Commonwealth Entity
FMA Act agency
Commonwealth authority
Chief Executive/Secretary (of agency)
Governing Board (of authority)
Non-corporate Commonwealth entity
(Non-corporate entity)
Corporate Commonwealth entity
(Corporate entity)
Accountable Authority
Officer/staff/employee
Official
Public money
Relevant money
FMA Regulations / CAC Regulations
PGPA Rules
Commonwealth resource management guidance and training tools
Commonwealth Resource Management (CRM) eLearning Program
Module 1, Introduction to the PGPA Act, of the CRM eLearning program is now available to
entities via GovDex. The program is available for entities to run on your own systems (it
is being built in Lecotra and is SCORM 1.2 compliant). If you would like Module 1 for your
entity but don’t have access to GovDex, please contact us at pmratraining@finance.gov.au
and we can provide the module to you another way.
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The module is the first of 4 core eLearning modules. The next three modules will have a
staggered release with a notional completion date of September (with further specialist
modules to follow the release of the core program):
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Spending relevant money
Duties of officials
Duties of accountable authorities.
Other matters
Refresh your links!
With the commencement of the PGPA Act on 1 July, many pages on the Finance website
www.finance.gov.au have either been replaced or updated. We recommend refreshing
any links in your browser’s history menu or favourites menu. This is particularly
important if you find that links to pages you normally visit are not working.
Resource Management guidance
A dedicated Commonwealth Resource Management Framework page has been created and
added to the Finance website. Among other things, the page lists information on the six
topics around which the Commonwealth Resource Management Framework is structured.
The topics include: Planning and Performance; Managing Risks and Internal Accountability;
Managing Money; Using Money; Managing Property; Working with others. More
information is provided under each of these topics. Entities can find out more about this
page by visiting http://www.finance.gov.au/resource-management/
FFSP Act and Regs on Comlaw
The Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Act 1997 (FFSP Act) has now been
published on Comlaw. The FFSP Act retains a few elements of the Financial Management
and Accountability Act 1997 and is now ensuring the continuation of a number of
Government arrangements, programmes and spending activities. The Financial
Framework (Supplementary Powers) Regulations 1997 that supports the supplementary
powers of the FFSP Act is also now published on Comlaw.
Further information
If you have any questions about the reform process, please contact us at
pmra@finance.gov.au.
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