Follow-up: Reducing Bushfire Risks

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In this review we assessed if the Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action and Country Fire Authority implemented their actions in response to our 2020 audit report Reducing Bushfire Risks, and if they adequately reduced bushfire risk near the Grampians National Park leading up to the 2024 bushfires.

Timely Payments Performance

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In 2021 the Victorian government amended the Fair Payments Policy. Agencies under the amended Policy must pay invoices for contracts under $3 million within 10 business days. We conducted this review to see if agencies were paying on time, and if publicly reported information about payment timeliness was accurate and transparent.

1. Our findings

What we examined

For this review we had a single line of inquiry: 

1. Do agencies meet the requirements of the Data Quality Information Management Framework standard (Data Quality Standard)?

To answer this question, we examined: