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This User Guide tells you about the features of the online report and the contents.

Our essential aim is for the report to meet the needs of our readers.

How to use this report

This report provides details of the operations and performance of the Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (FaCSIA) for the financial year ending 30 June 2007.

The report is presented in a number of parts.

Part 1—The Secretary’s Review gives an overview of the Department, including a list of achievements, details of the operating environment, FaCSIA’s contribution to social justice and equity impact and an overview of its financial performance. As well as overviews of the Department and its Portfolio, there is an explanation of the Outcome and Output structure.

Part 2—Performance Reporting reports on the Department’s achievements during the year when measured against the Outcomes and Outputs. This part also details the external reporting framework with a thorough explanation of the Department’s Outcomes and descriptions of the work of each Output area.

Part 3—Management and Accountability reports on the areas of corporate governance, enabling and valuing our people, environmental management, external scrutiny, information management and technology, ministerial and parliamentary services, partnerships for people, ensuring the right payments are paid to the appropriate people and a description of the Social Security Appeals Tribunal.

Part 4—Appendices 1–9, provides additional information on a range of important issues, including:

Part 5—Financial Statements—provide detailed information on our financial performance, including our financial position and cash flows during the year. It also includes the Australian National Audit Office’s independent audit of these statements.

To help you find specific information, the report also includes:

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Navigation

Contents navigation bar on the left of the screen

Located on the left is the navigation bar – this enables you to access the main sections in the report.

In parts 1-5 of this report there will be a series of links on the right-hand side of your screen, these enable you to quickly access other pages in that same section – they are listed in the order of the table of contents.

Links at the top of each page

Along the top of each page are links to additional sections of the report:

Return to top links

These links enable you to return to the top of the page you are currently viewing.

Accessibility Information

The accessibility page details the features used to make the online version of the FaCSIA Annual Report 2006-2007 accessible to the largest possible audience.

PDF Library

The PDF library is featured to allow for the downloading of the report as a single PDF file for printing or viewing.

How to find out more

Contact officer:

Branch Manager
Corporate Strategy Branch
Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
PO Box 7576
Canberra Business Centre ACT 2610

Telephone: 1300 653 227 (for the cost of a local call, mobile phones at mobile rates)
Email: annual.report@facsia.gov.au
Internet: www.facsia.gov.au

For more information about FaCSIA visit the department's web site on www.facsia.gov.au

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To obtain copies of other FaCSIA publications

For copies of this or other FaCSIA publications, telephone 1800 050 009 (a free call except from mobile and pay phones).

About the report

© Commonwealth of Australia 2007

ISSN: 1833-4687
ISBN: 978-1-921130-56-4
ABN: 36 342 015 855 FaCSIA

This work is copyright. Apart from any use as permitted under the Copyright Act 1968, no part may be reproduced by any process without prior written permission from the Commonwealth available from Commonwealth Copyright Administration, Attorney-General’s Department. Requests and enquiries concerning reproduction and rights should be addressed to the Commonwealth Copyright Administration, Attorney-General’s, Robert Garran Offices, National Circuit, Canberra ACT 2600 or posted at http://www.ag.gov.au/cca

In many areas of Indigenous Australia it is considered offensive to publish photographs of Indigenous Australians who have recently died.  Readers are warned that the publication may inadvertently contain such pictures.

Acknowledgments

Annual Report team: Melissa Clode, Lisa Harvey, Rebecca Kain, Anne Martland, Amy Panter, Anura Samara and Vangel Stefanoski

Design consultants: CouchCreative

Printing: Pirion

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