Thank you very much, Mr. Chair and members of the committee.
I found it most interesting. I should say I've come back to listen to this committee. I was in Ottawa for six months back in 1998. That was obviously a predecessor of the committee. It's clearly a very important part of the accountability process to have the information from an audit institution followed through by the committee.
By way of introduction, I work for the state audit office in western Australia, with responsibility for the performance audits.
I also hold a voluntary position, you might say, as an adjunct professor in one of the western Australia universities. I'm scoping, at this stage, some research into the interactions between audit institutions and parliamentary committees. This is a little bit of background for me, to get a sense of how this committee is operating with reports such as the one we just heard.