Style The Honourable | ||
Appointer Governor of Victoria, His Excellency Alex Chernov AC QC | ||
The Victorian Minister for Local Government is the elected officer of the government in the Australian state of Victoria that is commissioned with responsibility for scrutinising councils, recommending allocation of grants to local governments for projects, assessing processes for redistributing municipal boundaries according to population, overseeing tendering processes for council services, airing any concerns of local governments at Cabinet meetings and co-ordinating council community and infrastructure work at a state level. The Minister achieves the Government's objectives through oversight of the Local Government branch of the Department of Planning and Community Development.
All ministers responsible for local government since 1964 have been known as the Minister for Local Government, apart from Caroline Hogg (1991-1992), whose title was Minister for Ethnic, Municipal and Community Affairs.
The current Minister for Local Government is the Hon. Natalie Hutchins MLA, a representative of the Australian Labor Party.