This audit assessed the effectiveness of the Department of Defence’s management of the Mulwala Redevelopment Project. The audit focused primarily on the progress of the project, including its cost and schedule performance, and Defence’s management of risks and issues.
The Mulwala Facility is the sole remaining manufacturing site of military propellants and high explosives in Australia. The 1030-hectare site is near the border of New South Wales and Victoria. Until recently, it included around 300 buildings, the majority of which were constructed in the early 1940s and the remainder in the early 1990s. The nearby munitions facility at Benalla, Victoria, uses some of the output of the Mulwala Facility in its operations. The facilities at Mulwala and Benalla are owned by the Commonwealth and operated by a third party. In 2001, the Government announced that the Mulwala Facility would be redeveloped by 2004, at a cost of up to $220 million.
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