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Victorian Auditor-General announces his resignation

On Wednesday 8 August, the Victorian Auditor-General, Mr Des Pearson notified the Governor in Council of his decision to resign his position with effect from Friday 14 December 2012.
Mr Pearson has issued the following statement:

‘Today I have notified the Governor in Council of my decision to resign as Victorian Auditor-General with effect from Friday 14 December 2012.

It has been an honour to serve as Victoria’s twenty-fifth Auditor-General and to complete a 42 year public service career, including the last 21 years as an Auditor-General. The time is now right for me to move on to the next phase of life and it has been a privilege to be able to contribute to improving the accountability and performance of the public sector.

During my six years as Victorian Auditor-General I believe much has been achieved including the development of a four-year rolling annual plan that is aligned with the stated goals of the elected government. We have further refined and developed our financial and performance audit approaches to provide greater assurance to Parliament about the accountability and performance of the Victorian Public Sector.

The rigour of our methodologies, the transparency of our audit approach and the respect earned for our audit opinions and reports to Parliament are testament to our achievements. It has been especially gratifying to receive consistently positive feedback from Members of Parliament and the community about our concise and reader-friendly performance audit reports and our adoption of sector-based financial reporting.

I would like to thank my staff without whom our advances in strategic and annual planning, stakeholder engagement and reporting would not have been possible.

I also acknowledge the support of my fellow integrity officers and the good relationships with Ministers, Members of Parliament, departmental secretaries and audited entities, and the strong support I have received from Parliament and the Public Accounts and Estimates Committees of the 55th, 56th and now the 57th Parliament.’