Policies and procedures relating to the Department’s grant programs, and Number of cases referred by the Department to the AFP on suspicion of fraud of Commonwealth grants each year between the…

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The release comprises internal Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications, Sport and the Arts guidance on grant administration, prepared by the Enterprise Grants Management Office. The documents include a June 2024 readiness checklist for designing grant programs ahead of a New Policy Proposal, a grant implementation plan template with milestones covering design, selection, establishment, management and evaluation, and a grants prioritisation guide. Further extracts cover the Accountable Authority Instructions (version 1.4, released 1 July 2026) and duties of officials, including ministerial reporting to the Finance Minister on grants approved against departmental recommendations. The excerpts reference the Commonwealth Grant Rules and Principles 2024 and whole-of-government Grants Hub arrangements. The visible text contains no specific project names, dollar amounts, schedules or fraud referral figures, and the passages do not show any delivery delays, cost escalation or changes between advice and final decisions.