Australian
Trade Commission
Annual Report 2013–14
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  • Preliminary pages
    • Austrade at a glance
    • Letter of transmittal
    • Highlights from 2013–14
    • Outlook for 2014–15
    • Austrade locations
    • Auditors and acknowledgements
  • Agency overview
    • About Austrade
    • Chief Executive Officer's report
    • Austrade's network
    • Reporting framework
    • Organisational structure
  • Performance reporting
    • Outcome 1
    • Programme 1.1: Trade, education and investment promotion
    • Programme 1.2: Trade development schemes—Export Market Development Grants
    • Programme 1.3: Trade development schemes—Asian Business Engagement Plan
    • Outcome 2
    • Programme 2.1: Consular and passport services
    • Tourism policy, programmes and research
    • Programme 3: Tourism-related initiatives and management
  • Management and accountability
    • Corporate governance
    • Risk management
    • Legislative framework and external scrutiny
    • Management of human resources
    • Financial management and business assurance
    • Managing knowledge and information
  • Financial statements
    • Financial performance
    • Independent auditor's report
    • Certification of financial statements
    • Financial statements
    • Notes to and forming part of the financial statements
  • Appendixes
    • A: Staffing overview
    • B: Austrade and TradeStart locations in Australia and TradeStart partners
    • C: Austrade's Service Charter
    • D: Work health and safety
    • E: Financial and staffing resources
    • F: Ecologically sustainable development and environmental performance
    • G: Advertising and market research
    • H: List of requirements
    • List of figures and tables
    • Abbreviations and acronyms
    • Index
Austrade Annual Report 2012–13

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Part One
Agency overview

Reporting framework

Austrade operates under the Australian Government’s outcomes and programmes framework. Government outcomes are the intended results, impacts or consequences of actions by the Government on the Australian community. Government programmes are the primary vehicle by which government agencies achieve the intended results of their outcome statements.

Austrade’s 2013–14 Portfolio Budget Statements identify the outcomes and associated deliverables and key performance indicators used to assess its contribution to the Australian Government’s outcomes.

In 2013–14, Austrade had two outcomes:

  • Outcome 1: Advance Australia’s trade, investment and education promotion interests through information, advice and services to business, the education sector and governments
  • Outcome 2: The protection and welfare of Australians abroad through timely and responsive consular and passport services in specific locations overseas.

Austrade’s performance against these outcomes is assessed in Part 2 of this report.

Tourism policy, programmes and research

On 3 October 2013, responsibility for tourism policy, programmes and research was transferred to Austrade from the former Department of Resources, Energy and Tourism. The tourism function comprises a discrete programme in the former department’s outcome and programmes structure—Programme 3: Tourism-related initiatives and management.

Under the rules governing changes to the machinery of government, Austrade must report for the whole financial year on the performance of the tourism programme against the deliverables and key performance indicators set out in the 2103–14 Portfolio Budget Statements of the former Department of Resources, Energy and Tourism.

The tourism programme’s achievements against its deliverables and key performance indicators are assessed in a stand-alone section in Part 2 of this report, starting on page 105.

Austrade’s outcome and programme framework for 2013–14 is shown in Figure 2.

Figure 2: Austrade’s outcome and programme framework for 2013–14
Outcome 1
Advance Australia’s trade, investment and education
promotion interests through information, advice and services to business, the education sector and governments
Outcome 2
The protection and welfare of Australians abroad through timely and responsive consular and passport services in specific locations overseas
Programme 1.1
Trade, education and investment promotion
Programme 1.2
Trade development schemes—
Export Market
Development Grants
Programme 1.3
Trade development
schemes—
Asian Business
Engagement Plan
Programme 2.1
Consular and passport services
 
Tourism policy, programmes and research
Programme 3
Tourism-related initiatives and management

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