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How to use this report
This report outlines the operations and performance of the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy (DBCDE) for the financial year ending 30 June 2008. The report is prepared in accordance with the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet's Requirements for Annual Reports, released in June 2008.
If you require a copy of the Annual Report in another format, please telephone the Corporate Planning and Reporting section on 02 6271 1574 or email CP&R@dbcde.gov.au.
The report is also provided below in a number of sections.
Section 1—Overview
This section contains a review of the year by the Department's Secretary and an overview of the Department and its Ministerial arrangements, contact details, organisational structure, portfolio agencies, and its outcome and output structure.
Section 2—Performance review
This section provides a report on the Department's performance against its outcome and output. Performance is measured against the success measures in the Department's 2007–08 Portfolio Budget Statements (PBS) and Portfolio Additional Estimates Statements (PAES).
Section 3—Management and accountability
This section reports on the Department's management practicesincluding its governance arrangements, management of human resources, information technology and facilities, legal services, financial management and asset management.
Section 4—Appendices
The appendices provide supplementary information on a range of important issues, including:
- portfolio agency contact details
- resources for Outcome 1
- performance information index
- table of figures index
- appearances before Parliamentary Committees
- external scrutiny
- legislation and statutory instruments
- staffing statistics
- freedom of information
- advertising and market research
- discretionary grants
- ecologically sustainable development and environmental performance report
- Commonwealth disability strategy performance report
- financial performance.
Section 5—Financial statements
This section contains the Department's audited financial statements for 2007–08.
Section 6—Other information
This section contains a list of acronyms, glossary of terms, corrections to the 2006–07 Annual Report and an index to assist the reader.