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Follow the Money · Victoria

Department of Jobs, Skills, Industry and Regions

$4.5B

$4,466,076,067, 2026-27

Source: Victorian Budget 2026-27, Budget Paper No. 5, Department of Jobs Skills Industry and Regions - Financial statement. Retrieved 25 September 2026.

Capital projects listed

21

From the published project register, largest first below.

Programs

This government publishes a total for the department but not what each of its programs costs, so there is no level below this one to show. The figure above is the one in the budget papers, and the projects and contracts below are the levels that are published.

Major projects

  • Nyaal Banyul Geelong Convention and Event Centre (Geelong)

    $449.1M

    Geelong · Completed project

    Source: Victorian Budget 2026-27, Budget Paper No. 4, 2026-27 State Capital Program. Retrieved 25 September 2026.

  • Geelong City Deal (regional)

    $86.9M

    Estimated completion qtr 2 2026-27. The TEI has decreased by $22.626 million due to $24.736 million of budgeted amounts being reclassified as operating instead of capital expenditure, in line with accounting standards, offset by an increase of $2.110 million of Commonwealth Government funding. The TEI includes Commonwealth Government funding of $66.281 million.

    Regional · Existing project

    Source: Victorian Budget 2026-27, Budget Paper No. 4, 2026-27 State Capital Program. Retrieved 25 September 2026.

  • Building Better TAFE Fund - Melton (New TAFE Campus) (Melton)

    $55.0M

    Estimated completion qtr 4 2027-28. This initiative is part of Labor’s Financial Statement 2022.

    Melton · Existing project

    Source: Victorian Budget 2026-27, Budget Paper No. 4, 2026-27 State Capital Program. Retrieved 25 September 2026.

  • Building Better TAFE Fund - The Gordon TAFE (Geelong – Disability Services Hub and Student Hub Redevelopment) (Geelong)

    $36.0M

    Estimated completion qtr 4 2026-27. This initiative is part of Labor’s Financial Statement 2022.

    Geelong · Existing project

    Source: Victorian Budget 2026-27, Budget Paper No. 4, 2026-27 State Capital Program. Retrieved 25 September 2026.

  • Building Better TAFE Fund - Sunbury (New TAFE Campus) (Sunbury)

    $25.0M

    Estimated completion qtr 4 2027-28. This initiative is part of Labor’s Financial Statement 2022.

    Sunbury · Existing project

    Source: Victorian Budget 2026-27, Budget Paper No. 4, 2026-27 State Capital Program. Retrieved 25 September 2026.

  • Delivering a Victorian Renewable Energy TAFE Centre of Excellence (statewide)

    $25.0M

    Estimated completion qtr 2 2029-30. The TEI includes $25.000 million reprioritised from the Building Better TAFE Fund - Clean Energy TAFE Fund initiative funded in the 2023-24 Budget.

    Statewide · New project

    Source: Victorian Budget 2026-27, Budget Paper No. 4, 2026-27 State Capital Program. Retrieved 25 September 2026.

  • Delivering a Future of Housing Construction TAFE Centre of Excellence (Heidelberg)

    $25.0M

    Estimated completion qtr 3 2028-29. This initiative is part of the Economic Growth Statement 2024.

    Heidelberg · Existing project

    Source: Victorian Budget 2026-27, Budget Paper No. 4, 2026-27 State Capital Program. Retrieved 25 September 2026.

  • Building Better TAFE Fund - Clean Energy TAFE Fund (statewide)

    $15.8M

    Estimated completion qtr 2 2028-29. The TEI has decreased by $30.000 million due to $25.000 million being reprioritised to the Victorian Renewable Energy TAFE Centre of Excellence initiative and $5.000 million being reprioritised to the TAFE accessibility works and infrastructure initiative. This initiative is part of Labor’s Financial Statement 2022.

    Statewide · Existing project

    Source: Victorian Budget 2026-27, Budget Paper No. 4, 2026-27 State Capital Program. Retrieved 25 September 2026.

  • Go Fishing Victoria (regional various)

    $15.0M

    Regional various · Completed project

    Source: Victorian Budget 2026-27, Budget Paper No. 4, 2026-27 State Capital Program. Retrieved 25 September 2026.

  • Cultural Facilities Maintenance Fund (statewide)

    $14.5M

    Estimated completion qtr 4 2027-28. The TEI has decreased by $1.500 million due to budgeted amounts being reclassified as operating instead of capital expenditure, in line with accounting standards.

    Statewide · Existing project

    Source: Victorian Budget 2026-27, Budget Paper No. 4, 2026-27 State Capital Program. Retrieved 25 September 2026.

  • Delivering a Digital, AI and Technology TAFE Centre of Excellence (Frankston)

    $10.1M

    Estimated completion qtr 4 2027-28. The TEI includes $5.060 million of Commonwealth Government funding under the National Skills Agreement.

    Frankston · New project

    Source: Victorian Budget 2026-27, Budget Paper No. 4, 2026-27 State Capital Program. Retrieved 25 September 2026.

  • TAFE accessibility works and infrastructure (statewide)

    $10.0M

    Estimated completion qtr 4 2027-28. The TEI includes $5.000 million reprioritised from the Building Better TAFE Fund - Clean Energy TAFE Fund initiative funded in the 2023-24 Budget and $0.639 million of Commonwealth Government funding under the National Skills Agreement.

    Statewide · New project

    Source: Victorian Budget 2026-27, Budget Paper No. 4, 2026-27 State Capital Program. Retrieved 25 September 2026.

  • Conserving the Royal Exhibition Building (Melbourne)

    $9.6M

    Estimated completion qtr 4 2028-29.

    Melbourne · Existing project

    Source: Victorian Budget 2026-27, Budget Paper No. 4, 2026-27 State Capital Program. Retrieved 25 September 2026.

  • TAFE Asset Strategy (statewide)

    $4.9M

    Estimated completion qtr 2 2027-28.

    Statewide · Existing project

    Source: Victorian Budget 2026-27, Budget Paper No. 4, 2026-27 State Capital Program. Retrieved 25 September 2026.

  • Creative Industries Portfolio Agencies Recovery (metropolitan)

    $4.3M

    Metropolitan · Completed project

    Source: Victorian Budget 2026-27, Budget Paper No. 4, 2026-27 State Capital Program. Retrieved 25 September 2026.

  • Cultural infrastructure maintenance (statewide)

    $4.3M

    Estimated completion qtr 4 2027-28.

    Statewide · New project

    Source: Victorian Budget 2026-27, Budget Paper No. 4, 2026-27 State Capital Program. Retrieved 25 September 2026.

  • Building Better TAFE Fund - Bendigo Kangan Institute (Castlemaine – Community Health and Learning Hub) (Castlemaine)

    $4.0M

    Castlemaine · Completed project

    Source: Victorian Budget 2026-27, Budget Paper No. 4, 2026-27 State Capital Program. Retrieved 25 September 2026.

  • Recreational boating infrastructure improvements (Neerim South)

    $3.9M

    Estimated completion qtr 2 2026-27. The estimated completion date has been revised to quarter 2 2026-27 in line with a revised project schedule. This initiative is part of Labor's Financial Statement 2022.

    Neerim South · Existing project

    Source: Victorian Budget 2026-27, Budget Paper No. 4, 2026-27 State Capital Program. Retrieved 25 September 2026.

  • Research and development cash flow loans (statewide)

    $1.3M

    Statewide · Completed project

    Source: Victorian Budget 2026-27, Budget Paper No. 4, 2026-27 State Capital Program. Retrieved 25 September 2026.

  • Victorian Industry Development Fund (statewide)

    $0

    Statewide · Completed project

    Source: Victorian Budget 2026-27, Budget Paper No. 4, 2026-27 State Capital Program. Retrieved 25 September 2026.

  • Other capital expenditure

    Not published

    Estimated completion n.a.. Other capital expenditure includes minor projects and recurrent investment to maintain and upgrade the existing asset base being undertaken and funded by the Department.

    Existing project

    Source: Victorian Budget 2026-27, Budget Paper No. 4, 2026-27 State Capital Program. Retrieved 25 September 2026.

Largest contracts

Nothing published is linked to this entity. Rows are matched to an entity by the name the register uses, which does not always match the name in the budget papers; the unmatched ones are still in the full register.