Tourism Australia has yet to implement a new contract management system nearly a year after a scathing audit report found the agency routinely breached federal procurement rules , raising concerns from the opposition over hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of advertising and marketing contracts.

Last December, the Australian National Audit Office released damning audit findings that revealed the peak tourism body had contracts worth up to $370 million without competition or probity .

The report, which drew concerns from Tourism Minister Don Farrell , found that none of the $255 million in contracts awarded by Tourism Australia between 2021 and 2024 had a management plan and blamed poor record-keeping for widespread misreporting of contracts on Austender.

Nearly a year after

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