Parliamentary reports

A report of investigations into the City of Port Phillip (652KB)

Report tabled in Parliament on 12 August regarding three investigations into the City of Port Phillip.

An investigation into the Transport Accident Commission's and the Victorian WorkCover Authority's administrative processes for medical practitioner billing (1.93MB)

Report tabled in Parliament on 29 July into the TAC's and WorkSafe's administrative processes, including the failure to detect inappropriate medical practitioner billing practices and the failure to investigate outlier medical practitioner billing behaviour.

Conflict of Interest and Abuse of Power by a Building Inspector at Brimbank City Council.pdf (301KB)

Report tabled in Parliament on 10 June. The Ombudsman conducted an investigation into the use of information and influence by a building inspector to obtain property and personal gain. This included a conflict of interest and disposal of public records.

Investigation into the alleged improper conduct of councillors at Brimbank City Council P1-199.pdf (1.09MB)

Report tabled in Parliament on 7 May 2009. The Ombudsman investigated whether councillors at Brimbank City Council had conspired with each other to breach public trust, misuse information, mismanage public resources and perform their functions as public officers dishonestly.

Investigation into the alleged improper conduct of councillors at Brimbank City Council P200-220.pdf (1.13MB)

This is a link to the attachments in the Brimbank report.  To download the body of the report, click P1-199.pdf above.  Warning - this is a large file. If you are unable to download this document, please phone 03 9613 6235 and request a hard copy.

Corporate Governance at Moorabool Shire.pdf (460KB)

Report tabled in Parliament on 2 April 2009.  The Ombudsman conducted an investigation into Corporate Governance at Moorabool Shire Council.

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Crime statistics and police numbers report (3.97MB)

Report tabled in Parliament on 11 March 2009.  The Ombudsman investigated a complaint regarding the validity of crime statistics and police numbers and identified poor administrative systems and historical Victoria Police practices which have led to some crime being under reported, such as assaults and less serious offences.