Champion of mental health given leadership role

The Victorian Government has appointed its first Executive Director of Lived Experience.

11 November, 2021

Victoria’s ten year plan to boost recycling

Victoria has released a 10-year plan to boost recycling and and reduce landfill waste.

26 February, 2020

Vic Budget’s $3m to fight council corruption

Complaints to the Victorian Local Government Inspectorate have increased by more than 10 per cent in six years.

27 May, 2019

Errors, missing projects on governments’ ICT dashboards

Audits into the Queensland and Victorian governments’ online ICT expenditure reporting tools have found both dashboards improved transparency but their accuracy is in question.

13 July, 2018

Helping local councils put a dollar value on green infrastructure

New economic measure shows benefits of urban greening.

23 November, 2015

Outdated IT systems at risk, says Victorian Auditor-General

Critical report says more accountability needed.

7 October, 2015

Urban forests come out of the woods

Tree change imperative moves downtown.

2 July, 2015

Industry chuffed at VIC $30m to standardise freight rail

Movement on delayed journey to uniform gauges.

18 February, 2015

Dangerous Victorian power lines to be buried to prevent bushfires

An ambitious long term project to place Victoria’s high voltage powerlines underground is digging in to prevent a repeat of the devastating ‘Black Saturday’ bushfires of 2009.

6 March, 2014

Victoria gets serious on state cyber security

By Julian Bajkowski and Paul Hemsley Victoria has said it will become the first state to formally develop a whole-of-government Cyber Security Strategy to bolster its digital defences and keep critical online services running – a move that could soon to be replicated by other states and have a significant flow-on effects for councils and […]

21 November, 2013

Victoria sacks Wangaratta Council over “rampant bullying”

By Paul Hemsley The Victorian government has moved to turf out elected representatives from the Rural City of Wangaratta Council and appoint administrators until the 2016 council elections after two independent investigations found that the council was dysfunctional and “rampant” with bullying and intimidation towards staff and fellow councillors. The state government’s sacking of the […]

24 September, 2013

Victoria broadens geospatial mapping data release

By Paul Hemsley The Victorian government has moved to substantially broaden its collection of ‘open data’ available to industry and software developers by making more geospatial information available that pinpoints the geographic location of the state’s natural and constructed boundaries and features. It is the latest addition to the Victorian government’s public open data website […]

23 September, 2013

Fishermans Bend lures $2bn facelift

By Paul Hemsley The Victorian government has unveiled a new “draft vision” for the City of Melbourne’s ambitious plan to revitalise the Fishermans Bend industrial district that the government hopes will attract $2 billion in new investment from the private sector. A large curved peninsula of land in Port Melbourne that is separated from the […]

17 September, 2013

Mildura’s showcase solar plant fires up

By Paul Hemsley The Victorian Government has officially opened the Mildura solar power plant, which is expected to send electricity to 500 homes and with further investment from the state government could power more than 35,000 dwellings. The Mildura solar power plant has been in the planning and building stages since 2010 when it was […]

18 July, 2013