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Central Highlands Regional Partnership

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The Central Highlands Regional Partnership is one of nine Partnerships across the state, established by the Victorian Government, recognising that local communities are in the best position to understand the challenges and opportunities faced by their region.

Our region spans the east-west transport corridor connecting Melbourne to western Victoria. The region’s bustling major centre, Ballarat, has the fastest growing population of any regional city in Victoria, while our region also takes in the Rural City of Ararat in the west, the mineral springs at Daylesford, Bacchus Marsh in the east and Bannockburn in the south.

Our region includes:

Map of the Central Highlands partnership region

Since our establishment in 2016, the Central Highlands Regional Partnership has been actively consulting and engaging with thousands of people living and working in our community.

From 2019, our engagement has evolved and is now much more focused, with a small number of targeted deep-dive engagements. This follows on from the annual Regional Assemblies held from 2016 to 2018.

Our Partnership presents annually to Government on our region’s priorities. In 2021,the Partnership met with Ministers to raise priorities across housing, jobs and connectivity in the Central Highlands.

Over the past three years, a number of Partnership priorities have been supported in successive Budgets and, as a result, we have seen a number of Partnership-championed projects get off the ground.

However, the Partnership is about much more than winning funding at Budget time.

We have been active in bringing different groups and different levels and parts of Government together in our region, in getting people talking and listening, and in providing Governments with insight into how we can better design policy so it fits the needs and expectations of our communities.

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Send us an email at centralhighlands.partnership@rdv.vic.gov.au

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