The APSACC 2026 - The Australian Public Sector Anti-Corruption Conference focuses on strategies, tools, and best practices to prevent, detect, and manage misconduct and corruption across public sector functions including policing, health, education, and local government
Key Topics
- Corrections and custodial issues
- New trends and approaches in the sector
- Identifying and managing misconduct and corruption in the custodial environment
- Education and prevention
- Corruption and misconduct risks during organisational change
- Identifying and managing misconduct and corruption in a fluid environment
- Prioritising misconduct and corruption prevention in the change process
- Understanding of synergies, competencies and culture issues in the change process
- Managing misconduct and corruption risks with fewer resources
- High risk functions
- Procurement, outsourcing and tendering
- ICT contracting
- Planning and development
- Disposal of assets
- Policing issues
- Critical incidents investigations
- Police use of force
- Police interaction with the community and high risk activities
- Misconduct and corruption in the contemporary policing environment
- Influencing cultural change
- Civilian oversight of police
- Education
- New trends and approaches in the sector
- Identifying and managing misconduct and corruption in the education sector
- Education and prevention
- Probity in decision making
- Using information and advice to make good decisions
- Assessing the value and virtue of advice
- Early detection/intervention systems
- Identifying high risk behaviours, functions, individuals, organisations and sectors
- What do early detection/intervention systems offer?
- Integrating early detection/intervention systems into daily management activity
- Local Government issues
- Governance issues
- The relationship between elected officials and Council management and staff
- Oversight
- Education and prevention
- Tools and techniques
- Use of audit as a control
- The benefit of diagnostic tools
- Whistleblowing
- Managing internal reporting systems
- Building a workplace culture that accepts and promotes reporting
- Health
- New trends and approaches in the sector
- Identifying and managing misconduct and corruption in the health sector
- Education and prevention
- Political corruption
- Identifying and managing political corruption
Who should Attend
- Corruption prevention practitioners
- Private and Public sector managers and executives
- Local government and planning specialists
- Policy advisers
- Academic and university executive members
- Senior police officers
- Human resources specialists
- Internal auditors and investigators
- Forensic accountants
- Internal ombudsmen
- Industrial officers
