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"The Australian National Audit Office’s (ANAO) performance audits are an independent and objective assessment of agency programs, policies and/or systems designed to inform the Parliament and to provide a stimulus for improved public sector performance and accountability. A performance audit can be undertaken in a single agency or as a cross‐agency audit involving multiple agencies and a commonly performed function, or where more than one agency is involved in program delivery. Performance audits typically give consideration to the efficiency and effectiveness of agency administration and consistency with legislative and policy settings. In this way, performance audits can assist agency chief executives fulfil their responsibilities to promote proper use of resources when managing the affairs of the agency."--Summary.

Welcome to the first release of Typewriter Emergencies, a collection of psychologically damaging and hard hitting furry literature. It's a mad world we live in, a world where we are still uncovering some of the darkest of our secrets. We were asking a lot when we started our submission call. We were asking our authors to really dig the knife into their story; to give us the real maddening details, the secrets, the loss of control. And they did just that. This anthology has a total of thirteen gut-wrenching stories from several talented individuals. It's a collection that drops the reader into thirteen rough worlds without anything to protect themselves, only the leadership of the characters they're following. Each author handles a different aspect of the universe, touring the reader through some rather diverse struggles. Typewriter Emergencies is a journey not lightly made, and one that will definitely leave a deep impression on our readers. Weasel Press is proud to have our first furry collection on the books and we hope you will enjoy every moment this intense anthology has to offer.

Welcome to our neighborhood. Tonight is the night when ghouls and ghosts come out of the woodwork and when sweet candies are dropped into waiting bags. In short, it's Halloween, and it wouldn't be complete without both tricks and treats. On this All Hallows' Eve, we offer up something for the adults to enjoy in this anthology of Samhain stories. First, for anyone that likes a good scare, Trick has some fun horror stories from Renee Carter Hall, Bill "Hafoc" Rogers, Ray "Stormcatcher" Curtone, Rechan, and Tarl "Voice" Hoch that should help bring an appropriate shiver to your spine. Then after an evening of fine frights, Treat offers you some delectable romantic and erotic tales from Huskyteer, NightEyes DaySpring, Naomi Bellina, Whyte Yoté, Roland Jovaik, and Ianus J. Wolf to help keep you warm on a chill autumn night. So follow your guides to all the best houses, and decide which part of Halloween you enjoy the most... Trick or Treat.

AnimalsBeautiful, BrutalPoetry in MotionSo many are endangeredYet the Wildlife Conservation SocietyFights on their behalfThis poetry menageriejoins the causeCivilized Beasts is a poetry for charity anthology. Poets and artists from all over the world have come together to donate their time and their work to help save our wildlife. If you purchase this book, all of the profit earned will be donated to The Wildlife Conservation Society to aid them in their cause. Weasel Press invites all our readers to join us in our celebration of poetry and to help us in our global commitment.http://www.wcs.org/Poets include:Larry D. ThomasB. H. TangKevin GillamChris WiseBanWynn OakshadowArian MabeMarge SimonJason Huitt (Lunostophiles)Eduard Dragomir SzaboSandi StrombergRenee Carter HallEdwin 'Utunu' HerrellGeorge SquaresCeòAmy FontaineAlice "Huskyteer" DrydenWinston DerdenCarolyn A. DahlKenketDwaleJoyce ParkesStefano "Mando" ZocchiDominique GoodallTelevassiDavid Andrew CowanAltivo OveroKits KoriohnDenise ClemonsJack WarrenLynn WhiteBruce BostonLaura "Munchkin" GovednikWeasel

Raise a glass in a toast to Edgar Allan Poe with this jam-packed gothic anthology, including 12 themed issues containing 48 short stories and 7 poems from 55 masterful weavers of gothic fiction. Take a tour through Poe's Baltimore home, experience "The Tell-Tale Heart" through the old man's eyes, go corporate at Raven Corp., witness "The Fall of the House of Usher" from the perspective of a hidden Usher sibling, and much more. Don't miss the award-nominated stories "The Heart of Alderman Kane" by Eleanor Sciolistein and "Midnight Rider" by Melanie Cossey, both nominees for Poe Baltimore's Saturday 'Visiter' Awards.Curl up with Love Letters to Poe and enjoy these haunting tales!

An hour, an eye-blink, a single night- In a world where time flows steadily on, individual moments crystallize into the memories that define us, that we use to measure ourselves. At certain times our actions can change the course of an evening, or the rest of our lives. In ROAR volume 3 ten authors explore the power a single moment can have in a life. We've got stories from names you'll know like Kevin Frane, Renee Carter Hall and Ben Goodridge, as well as several newer writers with smaller resumes, but great talent. Give them a moment to grab you and they won't let go.

"The audit objective was to assess the effectiveness of the ATO's processes for estimating and monitoring the costs, savings and benefits associated with the Reinventing the ATO program."--Page 7.

An increasing global demand for energy assures continued disturbance to previously undeveloped landscapes, but understanding broader impacts to wildlife remains elusive. Among groups of species most vulnerable to habitat disruption are those requiring large tracts of land. Pronghorn (Antilocapra americana) are an obligate to the open plains and basins that, similar to other transcontinental large herbivores, rely primarily on habitats where development of energy resources such as oil, natural gas, coal, wind, and solar are intensifying. To understand behavioral response to a burgeoning energy development project, we evaluated avoidance, displacement, and winter residency patterns of pronghorn in the southern Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem across a 15-year period using 171 collared individuals. Distance from natural gas well pads increased through time and was concurrent with declines in winter residency. Between 2005 and 2017, we found that (a) pronghorn avoidance of well pads likely increased by 408 m, (b) the overall displacement of pronghorn relative to well pads in the final year of study increased by 800 m, (c) the time pronghorn spent in the study area was reduced by 22% (nearly 1 month), and (d) the percentage of pronghorn leaving the study area increased by 57%. Such directional changes signal a strong behavioral response of an open-plain obligate to energy infrastructure, and together, these metrics indicate that pronghorn response to energy development involves both avoidance of infrastructure and partial abandonment of their traditional winter ranges. While comparable long-term data sets are generally unavailable for other functionally equivalent ungulate groups in similar ecological topographies of Asia, Africa, and South America, our study may serve as a reasonable surrogate and highlights that behavioral changes elicited from energy development which at first appear subtle can proliferate and may portend demographic consequences.