We responded to the member on 24 March 2021.

We advised that we will obtain more information about the state’s funding arrangements with QYAC and its controlled entities.

We will also make preliminary enquiries of relevant state entities to understand how they are monitoring QYAC’s use of these funds.

July 2023 status update –

We have concluded our review of the funding arrangements and monitoring of QYAC’s use of funds by:

• Department of Environment and Science
• Department of Resources
• Redland City Council
• The University of Queensland.

Our audit did not identify any findings for reporting to management of these entities or for inclusion in a future report to parliament.

We continue to review the funding arrangements and monitoring activities of 2 departments, both subject to previous machinery of government changes. These changes impacted the responsibilities for Minjerribah Futures (preceded by the North Stradbroke Island Economic Transition Strategy). We will provide our findings to these entities when finalised.

At the conclusion of this work, we plan to incorporate any significant findings and recommendations, if any, into a future report to parliament. We expect to report our overall audit findings to parliament in late 2023.

The time taken to progress our audit has been impacted by delays in accessing documents, machinery of government changes and QAO staff turnover.

September 2024 status update – 

We have completed our assessment of how Queensland public sector entities have monitored grant funding provided to QYAC. A key focus of this was assessing how funding agreements for Minjerribah Futures were managed by the relevant departments. As QYAC is not a public sector entity we did not conduct an audit of it. 

After finalising our work, we circulated a draft report to relevant entities for their initial feedback. We are currently working through the feedback we received from them and will issue a proposed report for formal comment when complete.

As identified in the Auditor-General Auditing Standards, we do not table reports to Parliament during caretaker period. Accordingly, we will not issue our proposed report for formal comment until after the election is finalised.