Performance and Compliance Audits in Progress

Treasury’s oversight of government businesses

Tasmanians own 14 government businesses. The State Government, through the Treasurer and another responsible Minister, looks after these businesses on their behalf.

In 2024, the State Government decided the framework for overseeing government businesses needed to improve. This framework is developed and managed by the Department of Treasury and Finance. Treasury has finished its first phase of work and is now working on the second phase.

This audit will assess how well Treasury administers the framework for overseeing government businesses. It will do this by asking if Treasury maintains a framework that aligns with contemporary practice and is fit-for-purpose. It will also ask if Treasury gives the Treasurer the information needed to make informed decisions about government businesses.

This audit is underway.

Management of port infrastructure

Tasmania’s ports are essential infrastructure. More than 99% of goods entering and leaving the state move through the port network.

Inadequate port infrastructure management creates significant operational, safety, and economic risks. Publicly available information identifies that some of those risks may be realised because:

• actual capital expenditure is regularly below budget
• there are significant structural issues and asset readiness challenges at key sites.

Other factors that increase the complexity of port infrastructure management are Tasports’ dividend policy, the funding of non-commercial, community assets and the historical approach of providing customer centric port infrastructure.

This audit will assess whether Tasmania’s port infrastructure is managed in a way that is responsive to current and future needs. It will do this by asking if the current model for making strategic decisions on port infrastructure and port infrastructure management practices are effective.

This audit is underway.

Safe at Home

Safe at Home is the Tasmanian Government’s integrated criminal justice response to family violence. It brings together a range of government agencies and services to improve the safety of victim-survivors, support families affected by family violence, and hold people who use violence accountable for their behaviour.

Given that Safe at Home has been in place for 22 years, this audit will assess, in the current context, whether Safe at Home is still meeting its original objectives and specifically examine Safe at Home’s:

• processes used to respond to the safety risks of victim-survivors and affected children that enter the Safe at Home service system
• partnership arrangements to support an effective and efficient integrated response to family violence
• mechanisms to monitor performance and improve the effectiveness of the service system.

The audit is intended to provide Parliament and the Tasmanian community with independent assurance regarding the administration and performance of Safe at Home. The audit will not examine prevention and education initiatives, and operational responses by Tasmania Police to family violence incidents. Notably, the audit will not review individual circumstances of people impacted by family violence.

Contribute to this Audit

We invite you to provide any information or insights that you believe may be relevant to the audit objective. Contributions outside these areas may not be considered by Audit Tasmania.

When you provide us your personal information:

• please use the form below
• we only accept written contributions
• we will record your email address and other information submitted
• we will use the information for the purpose for which you provide it in accordance with the Personal Information Protection Act 2004.

Contributions will be accepted until 13 November 2026.

Important information

Audit Tasmania does not investigate individual complaints, provide legal advice, counselling, advocacy or crisis support services.

If your complaint relates to a concern about a Tasmanian State entity, please review the information on our Referrals page.

If you have been affected by family violence, support is available.

If you or someone you know is experiencing family violence and need urgent assistance call police on Triple Zero (000).

To report a non-urgent incident of family violence, call the Tasmania Police Assistance Line on 131 444 or attend your local police station. If you have a hearing impairment, call TTY 106.

If you do not wish to report a matter to police in the first instance, call the Family Violence Counselling and Support Service on 1800 608 122 for advice, support and counselling.

This audit is underway.

Please see the Auditor-General’s Annual Plan 2026-27 for other future audits here.

More information on the performance audit process can be found here.

If you have any information that you believe could be useful to us, please write to us at:

Audit Tasmania GPO Box 851 Hobart TAS 7001

OR email us