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 audit examines OHS practices in local government.

This report examines strategic workforce planning in the Victorian Public Service

This paper exhorts public sector agencies to re-examine and improve their current performance measurement and reporting practices. The paper pays particular attention to measuring and reporting.

This audit examined the efficiency and effectiveness of internal budgeting processes and practices within the Department of Education and Training and the Department of Infrastructure

Following a review of timber resources in 2001, the Government identified that if logging in State forests is to be sustainable, current harvesting rates must be reduced by about one-third on a Statewide basis. This audit examined the Voluntary Licence Reduction Program, the Worker Assistance Program and the Contractor Assistance Program.

The aim of this audit was to: investigate the progress made in implementing performance management and reporting, and assess the accuracy of public reporting of performance information, and comment on the relevance, appropriateness and fair presentation of published indicators, in a selected area of public sector activity.

This report provides the opportunity for Parliament to re-assess how well it is placed to discharge its key role of exercising effective control over public finances and holding Executive Government to account, and identifies opportunities to strengthen the effectiveness of such control.

The objectives of this audit were to determine whether: Victorian government schools have well-designed school drug education strategies in place, drug education is delivered to Victorian students in a manner consistent with Department of Education and Training policy, guidelines and local community needs, and student educational outcomes are monitored, reported and used to inform the further development of school drug education strategies.

This report recognises the importance of effective risk management in the Victorian public sector. Its purpose is to provide a timely assessment about risk management practices at individual agency and whole-of-government or State-sector levels, and to make observations about the adequacy of these practices.