It followed her release of the scathing audit outcomes on local government and the dire financial state they are in last week.
The Public Audit Act was amended in 2019 to give the Office of the Auditor-General extra powers to personally hold senior government officials accountable for misused public funds. "What we see is that accounting officers who tend to ignore our audit findings, when they see a matter now being given to them as an MI [material irregularity], they take notice because they understand that there is a prospect of something that's going to hit them in the pocket."
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