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Department of the Premier and Cabinet Annual Report Chief ANNUAL REPORT 2012-2013 Department of the Premier and Cabinet State Administration Centre 200 Victoria Square Adelaide SA 5000 GPO Box 2343 Adelaide SA 5001 ISSN 0816-0813 For copies of this report please contact Finance and Business Performance Corporate Operations and Governance Division Telephone: 61 8 8226 5944 Department of the Premier and Cabinet Annual Report 2012-13 Contents Contents ................................................................................................................................ 1 Chief Executive’s Review ........................................................................................................ 3 Our Organisation .............................................................................................................. 6 Achievements in 2012-13 ........................................................................................................ 9 State Government’s Seven Strategic Priorities ................................................................ 9 Three approaches to how government does business .................................................. 12 Program 1. Cabinet Office .............................................................................................. 12 Program 2. State Development ...................................................................................... 15 Program 3: Integrated Design Commission .................................................................... 17 Program 4: Capital City ................................................................................................... 18 Program 5: Agent-General’s Office ................................................................................ 19 Program 6: Support Services and Community Programs ............................................... 21 Program 7: Library and Information services ................................................................. 21 Program 8: Access to Art, Museum and Heritage Services and Preservation of State Collections ...................................................................................................................... 21 Program 9: Arts Industry Development and Access to Artistic Product ........................ 22 Program 10: Aboriginal Affairs and Reconciliation ........................................................ 23 Program 11: Shared Services .......................................................................................... 26 Program 12: Community and Government Services ...................................................... 26 Program 13: Public Sector Performance ........................................................................ 29 Program 14: Industrial Relations .................................................................................... 30 Program 15: State and Local Government Relations ..................................................... 32 Achievements under the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) .......................... 33 South Australia’s Strategic Plan (SASP) .......................................................................... 33 Reporting for Entities supported by the Department of the Premier and Cabinet ....... 37 Our People ............................................................................................................................38 Work Health and Safety and Injury Management ......................................................... 43 Financial Overview ................................................................................................................45 Fraud ............................................................................................................................... 46 Corporate Reporting ..............................................................................................................47 Disability Action Plan ...................................................................................................... 47 Whistleblowers Protection Act 1993 ............................................................................. 49 1 Department of the Premier and Cabinet Annual Report 2012-13 Energy Efficiency Action Plan Report ............................................................................ 49 Overseas Travel .............................................................................................................. 55 Consultants ..................................................................................................................... 55 Urban Design Charter ..................................................................................................... 58 Industry Participation Advocate ..................................................................................... 58 Appendices ...........................................................................................................................59 Appendix 1 – Legislation and Boards and Committees Administered by DPC. ............. 60 Appendix 2 – Whole of Government Workplace Safety Performance .......................... 64 Appendix 3 - Whole of Government Advertising ........................................................... 69 Appendix 4 - Fatalities notifiable under the Occupational Health, Safety and Welfare Act 1986 .......................................................................................................................... 73 Appendix 5 - Compliance Activities and Statistics .......................................................... 74 Appendix 6 - Convictions ................................................................................................ 75 Appendix 7 – Selected South Australia’s Strategic Plan Targets (to which DPC has contributed in 2012-13) ................................................................................................. 79 Appendix 8 – Diplomatic Visits ....................................................................................... 80 Financial Statements ..........................................................................................................81 2 Department of the Premier and Cabinet Annual Report 2012-13 Chief Executive’s Review The Department of the Premier and Cabinet was involved in a number of ground-breaking initiatives on the national stage in 2012-13. The Department led South Australia’s position on two critical issues – National Schools’ Reform and the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) with substantial support from Department of Treasury and Finance, Department for Education and Child Development and Department for Communities and Social Inclusion . This work was undertaken by Cabinet Office to support the Premier at the Council of Australian Governments meeting in early July 2012 and Cabinet Office supported the launch of the NDIS in South Australia from July 2013. This will be one of the first stages of a national scheme to improve the quality of support for people with a disability and their carers. South Australia was the third jurisdiction to sign up to the Federal Government’s Gonski school funding plan, which will see funding to South Australian schools increase by about $1.1 billion over the next six years. The South Australian International Engagement Framework was launched by the Office of International Coordination with a view to ensuring consistency, relevance and credibility in our approach to international partnerships. South Australia also secured $265 million from the Federal Government for water recovery and industry regeneration projects in SA River Murray communities and $155 million for major projects to restore the health of the wetlands at Pike and Katarapko in the Riverland. This is a significant result which came about through the leadership of the Premier, the Minister for Water and the River Murray, the Premier’s Murray-Darling Basin Plan Taskforce and some of our State Development and Cabinet Office staff, together with significant support from the Department of Energy, Water and Natural Resources and other State agencies. On the legislative front, South Australia's new harmonised work health and safety legislation took effect on 1 January 2013, replacing the Occupational Health, Safety and Welfare Act 1986. This important national initiative is the culmination of more than two years of intensive work at the local level by SafeWork SA. I would like to thank the staff who worked tirelessly to support the Minister in progressing this legislation, together with input from a considerable number of representatives of employee associations and employer groups. The Aboriginal Affairs and Reconciliation Division supported an advisory panel to hold state-wide community consultation sessions on the historic move formally to recognise Aboriginal people in the state’s constitution. Based on this consultation recommendations relating to the wording of the proposed amendments were submitted to Cabinet and the Constitution (Recognition of Aboriginal Peoples) Amendment Act 2013 was passed by both Houses of Parliament on Thursday 21 March 2013. Our state’s Aboriginal Lands Trust Act 1966 was the first Aboriginal land-rights legislation in Australia, and pre-dated the 1967 referendum. To ensure the legislation reflects the contemporary circumstances and aspirations of Aboriginal South Australians, it was re-drafted and is now the subject of consultation via a series of public meetings which began in February, with communities on ALT land (over 500,000 hectares spread across South Australia)
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