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March 13, 2024
Promoting Transparency and Accountability: The Vital Role of Probity in Safeguarding Integrity

Probity frameworks encompass a wide range of principles and practices that aim to promote honesty, integrity, and ethical behaviour within organisations and institutions.

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March 5, 2024
Lisa Braid joins Centium!

Centium Welcomes Lisa Braid to Our Executive Leadership Team, further enhancing our Probity & Governance Expertise Lisa Braid recently joined Centium to enhance and lead our Probity and Governance practice. With a background in senior executive roles within various government sectors and not-for-profit organisations, Lisa brings a wealth of experience in governance, procurement, and fostering […]

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March 1, 2024
Asset Management Maturity Model

Effective management of assets across the lifecycle (planning, acquisition, utilisation, maintenance, and disposal) is critical to the delivery of business objectives Centium offers a comprehensive evaluation of your asset management controls that can help you accomplish your business goals. Our assessment model, based on the Strategic Asset Management Framework: Public Sector, measures the maturity of […]

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January 17, 2024
New Local Government Risk and Audit Framework

Centium recently gave a presentation to the Local Government Internal Auditors Network (LGIAN) meeting on the recently regulated Office of Local Government (OLG) Risk Management and Internal Audit Guidelines and what those changes mean to Council.  These Guidelines have been in the pipeline for several years and are issued under section 23 A of the Local […]

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December 20, 2023
Shopping online safely over the holidays!

Advice from Scott Thomson Director Cyber & IM at Centium. Many of us are careful in all our online activities, including finding a bargain when shopping online, but many of our family and friends may not be as informed or careful when undertaking these activities. This risk increases when they are motivated to find the […]

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December 15, 2023
Centium Celebrates Its Bronze Anniversary

Some of Centium’s 50 plus Staff and Associates gathered together last Friday 8 December to celebrate our 8th Anniversary. As part of the celebrations Managing Director, Phil O’Toole, presented an overview of our significant client growth and market presence within the State and Local Government sectors, right across the Australian eastern seaboard, as well as […]

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December 7, 2023
Gifts & Benefits: An Ethical Dilemma

The festive season has arrived: end of year celebrations, lunches, dinners, drinks, gifts. Can you have it all? Navigating professional relationships and managing conflict of interest, particularly in the public sector, is paramount. Receiving and giving gifts and benefits is a common practice at this time of year, and its intersection with probity issues is […]

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November 7, 2023
Why you should consider a Cyber Security mock audit 

It’s not uncommon, at the end of a Cyber Audit Cycle, for organisations to be hit with below than expected audit outcomes and maturity levels. At that point, the audit's outcome is locked in, and there is no possible recourse.   This isn’t a good situation for an organisation to be in. A poor cyber audit […]

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October 31, 2023
Procurement & Contract Management Maturity Model

Procurement and contract management are two frequently occurring areas of mismanagement, fraud and corruption, both in and outside of the Government Sector Centium has applied its many decades of combined auditing experience with the requirements and guidelines of Federal, State and Local Governments to develop an innovative and comprehensive risk maturity model over procurement and […]

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October 3, 2023
Probity and Ethics: Doing the Right Thing

At Centium, we understand the importance of honesty, fairness, and transparency in government organisations. Being the moral exemplars, they hold the responsibility of safeguarding public interests and money.

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August 17, 2023
Cyber Security's Integral Role in ESG

We delve into the increase of cyber-attacks and data breaches and their profound impacts on businesses, including those committed to ESG.

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August 13, 2023
Avoiding common mistakes in assessing employee complaints and disclosures

Mishandling complaints and allegations, particularly whistleblower disclosures, can harm the individuals involved in them and damage your organisation’s reputation. Organisations may also be subject to financial penalties of up to 10% of turnover (capped at $125M), with individual staff being liable to fines of up to $3.15M. Most of the avoidable mistakes occur in the […]

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