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...

This report assesses whether the the Country Fire Authority and Victoria State Emergency Service effectively and efficiently manage emergency services volunteers. Introduction: Volunteering is critical to the delivery of community services throughout Victoria. When volunteers provide their time and resources, not only do they help to deliver services and contribute to the community, they enable...

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...

This audit examined the clinical information and communications technology (ICT) systems of eight public health services in Victoria to see whether they were appropriately planned and implemented and whether expected outcomes and benefits are being realised. It examined the Health SMART clinical ICT systems implemented at four health services and clinical ICT systems implemented at...