Strategic and operational priorities for CMTEDD in 2018-19 include:
- providing support to the Chief Minister, Cabinet and subcommittees to fulfil their obligations and interactions with the Australian government, and state and territory governments;
- progressing plans to develop and promote Canberra as a LGBTIQ welcoming city and implement the governments vision to address inequality through the Office for LGBTIQ Affairs;
- coordinating commitments from the Government’s response to the Royal Commission into Institutional Response to Child Sexual Abuse Reports;
- supporting, coordinating and developing the ACTPS workforce through the release of a Whole of Government workforce plan for graduate level positions;
- driving organisational and cultural change through the Workforce Transformation Group in supporting the ACTPS to prepare and transition to the new office accommodation in Dickson and Civic in 2020;
- coordinating and celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the ACTPS;
- strengthening community engagement and driving citizen centric services through digitisation of services across government, and to be a leader in the provision of customer and regulatory services while continuing efforts in building an organisation that is flexible and agile;
- enhancing the way in which directorates use and share data to improve services and decision making through improving data literacy and data management;
- adopting a risk-based approach to compliance and enforcement to ensure that resources are targeted to where the risks of harm, unsafe practices or misconduct are the greatest, thereby strengthening capacity to take action where the community, workers and the environment are most at risk.
- delivering the Priority Investment Program to seed collaborative sector building projects in partnership with key stakeholders, and supporting opportunities for commercialisation through investment attraction strategies that are aligned to the Territory’s identified key sector capability areas including: Space and Spatial Technology; Cyber Security; ICT and e-Government; Sport Technology; Health Innovation; and Agriculture and Environmental Sciences;
- working on investment attraction and internationalisation of the ACT economy through supporting the implementation of the Commissioner for International Engagement’s International Engagement Strategy;
- focusing on achieving the ACT’s Tourism 2020 target to grow the value of overnight visitation to $2.5 billion by 2020;
- actively pursuing opportunities to grow new international and domestic aviation making access easier for the domestic market and to connect to new destinations internationally;
- supporting events that have the ability to drive significant visitation outcomes through the Major Events Fund;
- enacting new legislation and associated regulatory practices for the conduct of combat sports in the ACT, including an ACT specific registration scheme and inspectorate function;
- delivering a Women’s Sport Forum that inspires and educates participants, while also serving as a further impetus to shared progression of strategy and vision across the sector, increasing opportunities for female leadership, participation and equity in sport;
- formalising arrangements for the Canberra District Rugby League’s development of a Rugby League Centre of Excellence and Community Hub at Northbourne Oval in Braddon;
- recognising the immense value of nature play, and delivering targeted sessions and programs to provide inspiration and guidance to ACT-based schools, activity providers and parents for the delivery of nature play-based activities for children and young people;
- supporting, and enhancing exciting high quality tourism and community events that provide strong economic, social and cultural benefits for the ACT, including the development of a new festival for delivery in winter 2020 to promote Canberra’s strengths in innovation, design, culture, coding and gaming;
- delivering the $15 million Belconnen Arts Centre Stage 2 development, including completion of Phase 1 (detailed design) and commencement of Phase 2 (construction) of the expansion of the Belconnen Arts Centre’s facilities through funding provided as part of the 2018-19 ACT Budget;
- developing legislation and associated guidelines to implement the new CTP insurance scheme chosen by the citizens’ jury. CMTEDD will develop the new information technology system required for the new scheme;
- continuing to lead and coordinate the ACT’s participation in the Commonwealth Grants Commission 2020 Methodology Review of Goods and Services Tax (GST) revenue sharing relativities;
- increasing the automation of manual processes, ongoing process review and improvements to the WoG program, working with stakeholders to manage the suite of ICT resources and systems, and continuing to increase the use of cloud storage to seek significant capital savings through reducing the need for ICT resources;
- continuing to progress the ACT Courts PPP project, in addition to providing support and advice to Transport Canberra and City Services (TCCS) for Light Rail Stages 1 and the potential Stage 2;
- providing advice, secretariat and governance support to a range of taskforces and Executive-led meetings, and contributing to effective management and planning across Government for infrastructure and capital works planning and project delivery; and
- implementing a new centralised property service model, with work commencing on new office accommodation in Dickson and the Civic to accommodate 1,900 public servants, which is part of a broader vision for renewing the Central Business District (CBD), the City to Lake and the Capital Metro projects.
The directorate will progress the following projects to enhance and improve consistency of procurement and contracting activities across government, and to increase transparency and compliance, including:
- a Whole of Government Professional and Consulting Services Panel (PCSP) which aims to reduce the cost of obtaining and using professional and consulting services;
- the “Online Simple-procurement Quoting And Reporting” (OSQAR) system1, which provides an online web-based procurement tool for producing the Request for Quotation (RFQ) documents for procurement valued from $25,000 up to $200,000; and
- sourcing new software tools for it simple procurements under $25,000 to support the directorate as the current Microsoft tool, InfoPath will ceased to be maintained by Microsoft.
Priorities for the directorate to improve financial management, revenue and budget processes include:
- further developing the ACT Revenue Office’s Business Intelligence capabilities to refine existing compliance activities and expend into new areas such as landholder duty;
- introducing legislation and administrative systems and processes for a Point of Consumption Gambling Tax which will commence from 1 January 2019; and
- developing a new Rental Bonds Portal, which is anticipated to have a soft launch in August 2018 with a full roll out in September 2018.
1 OSQAR is based on the Australian Government’s Commonwealth Contracting Suite (CCS).