As Melbourne's population continues to grow, community and industry demands upon the metropolitan freeway network are also growing. This report examines the funding and delivery of 2 freeway upgrades: the completed Tullamarine Calder Interchange (TCI) project, and the recently commenced M1 upgrade project. The State’s contribution to these upgrades was funded through the encashment of concession notes held by the State under the CityLink toll road concession with the Transurban Group.

International experience has confirmed that developing reliable and effective public transport ticketing systems is both difficult and expensive. Victoria's 'smartcard' public transport ticketing system (NTS) is a case in point. It involves a government investment of more than $500 million, and it promises to transform the operations of the public transport network. This report examined whether the tender process for the NTS was properly conducted and identifies lessons and relevant areas of good practice for future management of major tenders.

Specific Purpose Funds (SPFs) are moneys and property received by public health services from various sources and may include donations, bequests and research funding. Public health services disclosed in excess of $255 million in SPF reserves and more than $45 million in trust funds in their 30 June 2007 financial statements. Our audit covered 4 public health services which disclosed a total of around $118 million in SPF reserves and $28 million in trust funds in their financial statements. This audit examined how well 4 public health services managed such funds for the period May 2006 through April 2007.

The good practice guide was developed to assist Victorian public sector agencies with their procurement activities.

Since the 1990s, the Victorian Government has supported major events to attract tourists from interstate and overseas to increase Melbourne and Victoria's international profile and benefit the state. In the 2006-07 Budget, the government announced that there would be an additional $50.4 million over 4 years for major events. This increased the funding for major events to approximately $55 million per annum plus consumer price index increases over the period. The audit examined the 3 major phases to the major events management cycle: pre-event assessment, funding management, post-event assessment.

This report examined how well the current lease arrangements for maintaining the metropolitan, regional and interstate rail infrastructure had contributed to the delivery of reliable train service.

In this audit assessed whether Victoria Police is adequately planning for a workforce capable of achieving the outcomes established by the government’s Growing Victoria Together policy, particularly in relation to the need to improve public safety.

This audit examines the extent to which the activities of public hospitals, health services and Health Purchasing Victoria, the central procurement agency, have delivered savings and other benefits in procuring health goods and services

The objective of this audit was to determine if the 2004 franchising agreements for the metropolitan train and tram system represented value for money.

This report assessed the adequacy of the Department of Human Service’s overarching framework or strategic plan for reform of the Out of Home Care program.