Introduction: Victorian councils manage around $73 billion of physical infrastructure assets and spend over $2 billion annually to maintain, renew or replace them. Poor asset management can lead to deteriorating or failing assets, reduced levels of service, higher council rates and an increased financial burden on future ratepayer generations. Council spending on renewing or replacing...

The Victorian Aboriginal Economic Strategy was launched by the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs on 6 December 2013. The strategy leverages the strengths of Aboriginal Victorians and the State economy to build opportunity and economic prosperity and deliver better life outcomes for Aboriginal Victorians.

The Victoria: State of the Environment (SoE) 2013 is intended to inform the Victorian community about the health of the natural environment and influence government to achieve environmental, social, cultural and economic sustainability. The SoE 2013 contains two main parts and an epilogue. Part A Trends and Analysis Trends and Analysis of key indicators in...

This audit examined 11 public sector agencies and found that the policy, standards and protection mechanisms for the security of the state’s information and communications technology (ICT) systems and data have not been effectively applied. Agencies undertake only limited monitoring of suspicious internal network activity, and they do not have a capability to detect an...

This report informs Parliament about the Annual Financial Report of the State of Victoria, 2012–13 (AFR), the consolidated financial report of the state, and acquits the government’s stewardship of the state’s finances to Parliament. A clear audit opinion was issued on the AFR on 27 September 2013, providing reasonable assurance that the information in the...