(a) Electronic address of the audit committee
charter:
https://humanrights.gov.au/sites/default/files/ahrc_
audit_and_risk_committee_charter.pdf
(b) Audit and Risk Committee members in
2023–2024:
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Linda Waugh (Chair)
Navaka Arachchige
Clare Bower
(c) Qualifications, knowledge, and experience of
committee members:
Linda Waugh is the Chair of the Audit and Risk
Committee. She is the Integrity Commissioner for
the Queensland Government. Ms Waugh has over 20
years’ experience working in public sector integrity
and oversight bodies in both the Commonwealth
and state governments. She has a breadth of
experience across complaints and investigations,
risk and governance, policy reform and education,
systems reviews, and auditing and legislative
reviews. Ms Waugh holds a Bachelor of Arts, a Post
Graduate Diploma of Psychology, and a Master of
Business Administration.
was as a senior Partner at Deloitte Australia. She
was the Australian leader of Deloitte’s Risk Services
Public Sector and Not for Profit Industry Group.
(d) The Audit and Risk Committee held 5
meetings in 2023–2024 on these dates:
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28 August 2023
15 September 2023
1 December 2023
15 March 2024
13 June 2024
Committee members attended all meetings with the
exception of Mr Arachchige who was an apology for
the 15 March 2024 meeting.
(e) Member remuneration:
Ms Clare Bower was remunerated $5,000 in the
2023–24 period.
Navaka Arachchige is an independent external
member of the Audit and Risk Committee. He has
over 15 years of public sector experience in finance
and corporate services including governance,
audit, risk, and procurement. Mr Arachchige
holds membership of the Association of Certified
Chartered Accountants UK and the Chartered
Institute of Management Accountants UK. He also
holds a Master of Commerce degree specialising
in Management Information Systems from the
University of NSW.
Clare Bower is an experienced governance, risk and
audit professional with more than 20 years’ advising
and serving Australian and global organisations,
including federal and NSW public sector
departments, major ASX listed companies, and the
not-for-profit sector. Her most recent full-time role
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