Current emergency management reform is focused on working as one and achieving greater interoperability in the emergency management sector. The fire services must seize opportunities to work more closely with the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (DELWP), Victoria State Emergency Service (VICSES), and other emergency management organisations.

This review evaluated the operation, effectiveness and implications of Victoria’s Counter-terrorism Legislation.

The report provides information to assist private enterprise and governments to better understand and plan for emergencies in Victoria. It also sets out what is being done about those risks, and sources of further information, in order to better support strategic priority-setting.

The Department of Justice has conducted an extensive review of sexual offences in Victoria, and prepared a consultation paper which identifies and analyses the main problems with sexual offence laws. The consultation paper presents proposals for improving the clarity and effectiveness of these laws, and asks questions about how best to deal with certain aspects...

This consultation paper contains a detailed analysis of the operation of defensive homicide. This includes an examination of the 28 defensive homicide convictions since the introduction of the offence, three of which involved a female accused.