It's another year of missed statutory deadlines, public service jargon, and bureaucratic red tape as agencies scramble to table their annual reports to Parliament, and Public Eye has been busy poring over the fine details.

Not only do annual reports show off the hard work done by public servants to keep the government ship afloat, they also offer an opportunity to admit to honest mistakes, albeit on the final page of a 200-plus page document.

In its latest annual report, Services Australia admitted to accidentally declaring that 186 million people had visited its website in 2023-24, when in reality it was 89 million.

The agency also said it misreported the total PBS and RPBS benefits paid out as $17.9 billion, when the correct amount was $18.3 billion.

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