List of Victorian government agencies
The Government of Victoria is delivered by a number of agencies, grouped under areas of portfolio responsibility. Each portfolio is led by a minister appointed from the Parliament of Victoria.
Current Departments and agencies
Aboriginal Affairs
Ageing
Education and Early Childhood
Emergency Services
- Metropolitan Ambulance Service (MAS)
- Rural Ambulance Victoria (RAV)
Energy
Environment
Human Services
The Department of Human Services (DHS) is the Victorian Government's largest department. Its responsibilities include health, mental health, senior citizens, community services, and public housing.
The department directly employs more than 13,000 people and funds hospitals, aged care facilities, ambulance services, and community service agencies that collectively employ more than 80,000 people.
Industrial relations
Infrustructure
Local government
Planning and Community Development
- Department of Planning and Community Development
- Adult, Community and Further Education Board
- Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games Corporation (Now defunct)
- Victorian Multicultural Commission
Police
Ports and Waterways
Premier and Cabinet
Primary Industries
Transport
The Department of Transport(DOT) supports three Ministerial portfolios, the Minister for Public Transport, the Minister for Roads and the Minister for Ports. It also supports one Parliamentary Secretary for Transport.
Agencies
DOT oversees and coordinates the activities of the state agencies responsible for the transport system in Victoria. These agencies can be divided into three main types - statutory offices, statutory authorities and independent transport safety agencies.
Together with DOT, the agencies provide, manage and regulate transport system activities in Victoria including -
- heavy and light rail systems including trains and trams
- roads systems and vehicles including cars, trucks and bicycles
- ports and waterways including commercial ships[1] and recreational vessels
- some air transport systems.[2]
Statutory offices
The statutory offices include -
These agencies are part of the Department of Transport but each has a distinct statutory charter and powers.[3]
Statutory authorities
The statutory authorities[4] are -
These agencies are structurally separate from the Department of Transport.[5]
Independent transport safety agencies
The independent transport safety agencies[6] are -
These agencies are part of the Department of Transport but are functionally independent and report to the relevant Ministers.[7]
Tourism
Victorian cross
Justice
Treasury and Finance
- Treasurer of Victoria
- The Department of Treasury and Finance provides policy advice to the Victorian Government on economic, financial and resource management, supporting the delivery of its financially responsible and socially progressive policy platform.
- Financial Reform Division
- The Department formulates and implements the Government’s longer-term economic and budgetary objectives, which are to achieve economic growth for all regions of the State and increase the living standards of all Victorians.
References
- ^ Note, some shipping matters are controlled by the Commonwealth under legislation such as the Navigation Act 1912. Other matters are within the jurisdiction of states such as Victoria through Acts such as the Transport Integration Act and other statutes like the Marine Act 1988.
- ^ Note, many air transport regulation matters are controlled by the Commonwealth Government. The Transport Integration Act would apply, for example, to planning controls at some airports and in respect of transport connections to other airports by road and rail.
- ^ For information relating to the Director of Public Transport, see Division 1 of Part 5 of the Transport Integration Act 2010. The charter and powers of the Transport Infrastructure Development Agent are set out in Division 4 of Part 3 of the Transport Integration Act 2010.
- ^ See Parts 5 and 6, Transport Integration Act 2010.
- ^ The Act establishes these agencies as structurally separate bodies with their own legal personality. For example, section 81(4) of the Transport Integration Act 2010 establishes VicRoads as a "body corporate" which "may do and suffer all acts and things that a body corporate may by law do and suffer".
- ^ Part 7, Transport Integration Act 2010.
- ^ Section 194, Transport Integration Act 2010.