{"id":551349,"date":"2026-03-19T21:17:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T21:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/551349\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T21:17:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T21:17:10","slug":"dfat-plan-to-secure-australias-diplomatic-network-partly-effective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/551349\/","title":{"rendered":"DFAT plan to secure Australia&#8217;s diplomatic network \u2018partly effective\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An audit of DFAT\u2019s $394.3 million Security Enhancement Program (SEP) has determined that Commonwealth procurement rules were only \u201cpartly complied with\u201d and that value for money was \u201cpartly achieved\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Managing Australia\u2019s overseas network is one of six key activity areas for the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and the SEP aims to ensure the government\u2019s duty of care for staff based at 115 posts across 86 countries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The audit office examined government spending between 2018 and 2021, intended to provide a safe and secure environment for staff and visitors to Australia\u2019s overseas missions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An audit of DFAT\u2019s $394.3 million Security Enhancement Program (SEP) has determined that Commonwealth procurement rules were only&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":551350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,160154,272689,272690,44],"class_list":["post-551349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-dfat","tag-dfat-security-enhancement-program","tag-diplomatic-postings","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}