The WestConnex project is a motorway project that will link the M4 and M5 motorways with 33km of new motorway tunnels in Sydney. We conducted a performance audit of the WestConnex business case review process in 2014. Since then, the scope and projects included in WestConnex have changed. This audit will assess whether Transport for NSW and Infrastructure NSW effectively assessed and justified major scope changes to the WestConnex project since December

Our 2017 performance audit on planning for school infrastructure identified chronic under-investment in school infrastructure and deficiencies in asset planning. The NSW Department of Education has developed a School Assets Strategic Plan to provide a framework to deliver additional school infrastructure needed to support growing enrolments. According to the NSW Department of Education’s Annual Report for 2019, $6.7 billion is being invested to deliver 1