ACT Audit Office twinning partnership with the Kiribati Audit Office

Joy Burch MLA, Speaker of the Legislative Assembly        
Michael Harris, Auditor-General, ACT Audit Office

28 April 2023

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The ACT Audit Office recently entered into a twinning arrangement with the Kiribati Audit Office. This followed recent discussions between the ACT Auditor-General, Mr Michael Harris, and the Kiribati Auditor-General, Mr Eriati Tauma Manaima, following the 24th Pacific Association of Supreme Audit Institutions (PASAI) Congress in Koror, Palau.

Mr Harris and his staff welcomed two representatives from the Kiribati Audit Office to Canberra this week to commence the arrangement. “The twinning arrangement will allow us to share our experience and knowledge to assist the Kiribati Audit Office to improve its performance audit capability and performance” Mr Harris said.

Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, Ms Joy Burch MLA, took the opportunity to meet the Kiribati Audit Office representatives given the partnership between the ACT Legislative Assembly and the Maneaba ni Maungatabu (national parliament) in Kiribati.

The meeting was held in the Kiribati Room at the ACT Legislative Assembly, which was opened in June 2012 in recognition of the partnership between the Legislative Assembly and Maneaba ni Maungatabu.

Madam Speaker said “the ACT Legislative Assembly has a special and enduring relationship with Kiribati and this new twinning arrangement between the ACT and Kiribati Audit Offices is a further demonstration of the commitment and interest we share. These arrangements are also an excellent opportunity for the exchange of information and an opportunity to learn from the way other jurisdictions operate. I am pleased to have joined with the Auditor-General today to support this new arrangement and look forward to seeing this relationship grow”.

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