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Explore the latest quarterly newsletter from the Commonwealth Fraud Prevention Centre.

Fraud controls are individual measures, processes or functions that help entities prevent, detect and respond to fraud.

Interning at the Commonwealth Fraud Prevention

Comcover is the Australian Government’s self-managed insurance fund. The Department of Finance administers Comcover for the benefit of fund members.

From January to March 2022, we progressed a range of projects, supported our stakeholders to build their counter fraud capability and planned out the remainder of 2022.

From July – December 2021, we focused on setting the Centre up for success for the next 4 years.

We’ve examined responses to the annual Australian Institute of Criminology Fraud Questionnaire to work out whether entity size affects fraud prevention, detection and response.

We have collaborated with international and Australian partners to release the latest International Public Sector Fraud Forum publication - A Guide to Pressure Testing. Find out more about the latest leading practice guidance and how public bodies across the world are testing the effectiveness of fraud controls.

Learn about our newly developed Launch Support Package and collaboration with the Australian Passport Office.

How you can access and use Australian Business Register (ABR) data to make decisions and detect fraudulent behaviour.