Secretary’s foreword
The Department of Premier and Cabinet’s 2024-25 Annual Report highlights our public sector leadership and commitment to high-quality service delivery.
DPC delivered many significant achievements in 2024-25, while operating in a financially responsible way that recognised the economic challenges facing the Victorian Public Service.
As befitting our status as a First Minister’s department and a central agency of government, we have continued to provide impartial policy and legal advice to the Victorian Premier and DPC’s Ministers. We have delivered administrative support to the Cabinet and, where required on Executive Council matters, the Governor of Victoria.
We have also worked closely with our colleagues in the Department of Treasury and Finance and more broadly across the Victorian Public Service to support the Victorian Government’s financial and policy priorities. This included Victoria’s Economic Growth Statement, which was published in December 2024 and outlines reforms to prepare Victoria’s economy for future opportunities and challenges.
We continued to lead Treaty negotiations on behalf of the State of Victoria with the First Peoples’ Assembly, helping to establish a path towards a Statewide Treaty agreement. We supported the protection and management of Victoria’s Aboriginal cultural heritage, as well as infrastructure projects for First Peoples communities, including the opening of the Munarra Centre for Regional Excellence in Shepparton in August 2024.
DPC also coordinated the whole-of-government engagement with the Yoorrook Justice Commission, which concluded in June 2025. Established in 2021, the Commission was the first ever truth-telling inquiry into the historic and ongoing systemic injustices committed against Aboriginal Victorians since colonisation.
We helped develop Victoria’s anti-racism strategy 2024-29, which was launched in November 2024 and aims to prevent race and faith-based discrimination in Victoria. We have also supported the work of Victoria’s Multicultural Review, an independent review of the state’s multicultural mechanisms that was announced in December 2024.
Our whole-of-government leadership in promoting trade, investment and cultural ties included delivering Victoria’s India Strategy: Our Shared Future 2025-30, launched by the Premier during an official visit to India. We have separately worked on an update to Victoria's China Strategy: For a New Golden Era, ahead of this being launched later in 2025.
The most recent addition to DPC is the Children’s Portfolio Coordination function, which was established in January 2025. This team collaborates with departments and agencies to coordinate Victorian Government-led policies and projects supporting children aged 12 and under.
We also delivered events of state significance on behalf of the Victorian Government. A notable example was the Premier’s Diwali State Reception, which was attended by more than 1,200 guests and marked the first time DPC hosted the annual Hindu celebration since the Multicultural Affairs portfolio returned to our department in early 2024.
I welcome the release of our 2024–25 Annual Report.
Jeremi Moule
Secretary
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