Strategy and Policy
DPI develops policy and strategy for the primary and energy industries to enable:
- competitive businesses and efficient markets
- engaged, safe and responsible communities
- sustainable management of natural resources.
Our strategic plan is fully aligned with government’s core program of Growing Victoria Together.
Our strategic priorities include:
- addressing the challenge of a changing climate
- operating in competitive and volatile markets
- meeting community demands for higher levels of accountability and support
- responding to population growth and demographic changes in rural and regional areas.
Definitions
A "policy" is a plan to achieve an objective or overall course of action determined by the Commonwealth or Victorian government that the Department is required to develop and implement.
A "strategy" refers to the means by which a policy objective is actively pursued and achieved.
Our objective
To enable transformation in Victoria’s primary and energy industries to sustainably increase wealth and wellbeing while protecting and enhancing safety, community, animal welfare and environment.
Our key strategies
These strategies are implemented through our work programs, projects and initiatives.
Our six key strategies are:
- Develop a strategic policy framework - we prepare a comprehensive, integrated and long-term strategic policy framework to build the productivity, competitiveness and sustainability of Victoria's primary and energy industries.
- Drive innovation in science, technology and practice - we fund important research, development, demonstration, commercialisation and practice-change that would not occur sufficiently if left fully to the private sector.
- Develop and operate efficient markets and regulatory frameworks we allocate natural resources to their most productive uses, develop administered markets, enhance the access of primary producers to markets, and establish and oversee the regulation of primary and energy industries.
- Negotiate and facilitate major investments - we assist developers of large projects in the energy and earth resources industries to understand and comply with approvals’ processes, and play a key role in delivering major public infrastructure investments that provide public benefits.
- Manage emergencies promptly and effectively - we advise and implement the Government's response to a wide range of emergencies, including biosecurity incidents, energy supply shortfalls and bushfire response and recovery.
- Achieve excellence in corporate and business management - we provide high-quality and efficient business and corporate services to ensure successful delivery of our strategic objectives.
Read our Annual Report for more information.
Victorian policy development
We contribute to Victorian policy development and reform and currently play a lead role in the development and implementation of the:
- Timber industry strategy
- Victoria's energy future strategy
- Biosecurity strategy
- Future farming strategy
National policy development
We contribute to national policy development and reform in a number of areas including:
- national drought policy to help prepare farmers, rural communities and Australia’s primary industries for a changing climate
- national energy market reform to improve security, reliability and efficiency of supply through contributions to the Ministerial Council on Energy
- a work program to review a national framework for the regulation and management of onshore and offshore carbon capture and storage
- the design of the Commonwealth's proposed carbon pollution reduction scheme (CPRS) through the States and Territories' National Emissions Trading Taskforce
- national water policy through participation on the Murray Darling Basin Commission and Council of Australian Governments (COAG) working groups
- build capability and develop practice change frameworks in the agriculture, fisheries and forestry industries through participation on the Primary Industries Ministerial Council (PIMC).
Related links
Policy general
- Economics & Policy Research Publications
- Biotechnology Policy
- Energy policy
- Economics & Policy Research
- Noxious Aquatic Species Permits - Policy Statement
- Hardship Policy Statement
Agriculture strategy
- Biosecurity Strategy for Victoria
- Future Farming
- Better Services to Farmers
- Market Development and Access Strategy 2009/2010
Energy strategy
Forestry strategy
Fisheries strategy
- Victorian Climate Change Strategy for Fisheries and Aquaculture 2008-2018
- Fish Stocking
- Indigenous fishing
