Following a review of timber resources in 2001, the Government identified that if logging in State forests is to be sustainable, current harvesting rates must be reduced by about one-third on a Statewide basis. This audit examined the Voluntary Licence Reduction Program, the Worker Assistance Program and the Contractor Assistance Program.

The aim of this audit was to: investigate the progress made in implementing performance management and reporting, and assess the accuracy of public reporting of performance information, and comment on the relevance, appropriateness and fair presentation of published indicators, in a selected area of public sector activity.

This report provides the opportunity for Parliament to re-assess how well it is placed to discharge its key role of exercising effective control over public finances and holding Executive Government to account, and identifies opportunities to strengthen the effectiveness of such control.

The objectives of this audit were to determine whether: Victorian government schools have well-designed school drug education strategies in place, drug education is delivered to Victorian students in a manner consistent with Department of Education and Training policy, guidelines and local community needs, and student educational outcomes are monitored, reported and used to inform the further development of school drug education strategies.

This report recognises the importance of effective risk management in the Victorian public sector. Its purpose is to provide a timely assessment about risk management practices at individual agency and whole-of-government or State-sector levels, and to make observations about the adequacy of these practices.

The management of salinity is a long-term undertaking and Victoria is now one third of the way into the 30-year Salinity Management Program established in 1988. The audit highlights the difficulties and challenges faced by the Government and rural communities in effectively managing the salinity problem.

The scope of this audit included examining the records of non-government recipient agencies to assess whether funds had been used as intended and were expended efficiently and effectively.

The audit examined the arts environment in Victoria and assessed the extent to which the management framework established within Arts Victoria to support the Arts 21 Strategy is conducive to implementation of the strategy with maximum effectiveness and efficiency.

The objectives of the audit were to assess whether: distributions from the Community Support Fund have been in accordance with relevant legislation and central agency guidelines, a sound framework had been established to monitor and evaluate the effectiveness, efficiency and economy of programs, activities and initiatives funded by the Community Support Fund, and to ensure that funds have been expended by recipient organisations for the intended purpose(s), the administration and management of the Community Support Fund had been undertaken in an efficient, effective and economic manner, and sufficient mechanisms have been put in place to ensure adequate accountability to the Parliament and the community for the use of the Fund.

This Report discusses various matters concerning the administration of grants and subsidies to non-government organisations at a central agency and departmental level.