The Victorian Government Open Data Directory uses CKAN to surface thousands of datasets from across the Victorian Government. This API is based on version 2.7.3 of the CKAN API documentation and …Show full descriptionThe Victorian Government Open Data Directory uses CKAN to surface thousands of datasets from across the Victorian Government. This API is based on version 2.7.3 of the CKAN API documentation and provides access to CKAN functionality for the purpose of integrating with other CKAN instances. It can also be used as a data source for other applications to search and download the datasets provided by Data.Vic. This API is the updated version that implements the Whole of Victorian Government API Design Standards for RESTful APIs developed by the Victorian Government.

The Victorian Government Directory is a guide to the structure, organisations, key people and services in the Victorian Government. Information in the directory is grouped under the four key arms of government: the Governor of Victoria, Departments and other Bodies, Victorian Parliament, and Courts and Tribunals.

Organisations - this dataset lists all departments (and their divisions), other bodies and office locations.

Abstract This dataset is a subset of The Emergency Management Facilities dataset and contains Rural Country Fire Service facilities. The Emergency Management Facilities dataset presents the spatial locations, in point format, of all known police stations, ambulance stations, metropolitan fire facilities, rural fire facilities, SES facilities and other (AFP and ACT ESA sites) within Australia. Currency Date modified: February 2023 Modification frequency: As needed Data extent Spatial extent North: -9° South: -44° East: 160° West: 92° Source information The primary information sources used to produce the Emergency Management Facilities Dataset was acquired from each Emergency Management State and Territory agency. Access to the required spatial data and attributes for each facility was coordinated with the support of Emergency Management Spatial Information Network Australia (EMSINA). Australian Capital Territory

ACT Emergency Services Agency Australian Federal Police

New South Wales

Emergency Information Coordination Unit Australian Federal Police

Northern Territory

NT Police Fire & Emergency Services Australian Federal Police

Queensland

Qld Government Data Directory Australian Federal Police

South Australia

SA Country Fire Service SA State Emergency Service SA Government Data Directory SA Police Australian Federal Police

Tasmania

Department of Natural Resources and Environment Australian Federal Police

Victoria

Vic Government Data Directory Australian Federal Police

Western Australia

WA Government Data Directory St John Ambulance WA Australian Federal Police

Geoscience Australia catalog entry: Emergency Management Facilities Database Lineage statement Using the previous Emergency Management Facilities datasets (2018) acquired from State and Territory agencies, the data was uploaded into an ArcSDE environment using Feature Manipulation Engine (FME). The process included the extraction of the themed features, and the translation of the data into a schema created by the Built Environment & Exposure Section, National Location Information Branch, Geoscience Australia (GA). In 2023 further FME processing was completed where the dataset was address matched using the original address provided and compared with the Geocoded National Address File (G-NAF) data. If no address match occurred GIS specialists attempted to find a relevant corresponding G-NAF address to join to, where possible. Data dictionary

Attribute name Description

OBJECTID Automatically generated system ID

FEATURETYPE A singled feature type “Emergency Facility” is the collective name of the different facility subtypes identified in the CLASS field.

DESCRIPTION Brief description of the feature type

CLASS The feature type subtypes: Ambulance Station Emergency Management Facility Metro Fire Facility Police Station Rural/Country Fire Service Facility SES Facility

FACILITY_NAME The station/facility name of each individual feature

FACILITY_OPERATIONALSTATUS A description of the facility status Operational (functioning as an Emergency Services facility, does not indicate opening hours or if the facility is staffed) Non-operational (no longer operational as an Emergency Services facility)

FACILITY_ADDRESS The address of this feature, as supplied by the data source

ABS_SUBURB The ABS suburb where this feature is located

FACILITY_STATE The state where this feature is located, as supplied by the data source

ABS_POSTCODE The ABS postcode where this feature is located

FACILITY_ATTRIBUTE_DATE Date of the source material used.

FACILITY_DATE Date of the source material used to capture this feature

FACILITY_SPATIAL_CONFIDENCE Confidence rating of the accuracy of the feature’s spatial location (5 high – 1 low)

FACILITY_REVISED The date the feature was last revised

COMMENT A free text field for adding general comments about this feature to external users

FACILITY_LAT A numerical way to measure the North South position of the feature

FACILITY_LONG A numerical way to measure the East West position of the feature

VALIDATED Additional confirmation of the features accuracy

GNAF_BUILDING_NAME The GNAF station/facility name of each individual feature

GNAF_ADDRESS_DETAIL_PID The unique ID defined within the G-NAF address data

GNAF_FORMATTED_ADDRESS The GNAF address where this feature is located

GNAF_CONFIDENCE 2 - This reflects that all three contributors have supplied an identical address. 1 - This reflects that a match has been achieved between only two contributors. 0 - This reflects that a single contributor holds this address and no match has been achieved with either or the other two contributors. -1 - No match has been achieved but an entry exists

GNAF_POSTCODE The GNAF postcode where this feature is located

GNAF_SUBURB The GNAF suburb where this feature is located

DISTANCE_TO_GNAF Distance of the GNAF from the Emergency management location point in metres

GNAF_LAT A numerical way to measure the North South position of the GNAF feature

GNAF_LONG A numerical way to measure the East West position of the GNAF feature

Contact Geoscience Australia, clientservices@ga.gov.au

The Emergency Management Facilities dataset presents the spatial locations, in point format, of all known policing facilities, ambulance stations, metropolitan fire facilities, rural fire facilities and SES facilities and Other Emergency Management facilities within Australia.

Source Information: The primary information sources used to produce the Emergency Management Facilities Dataset was acquired from each Emergency Management State and Territory agency. Access to the required spatial data and attributes for each facility was coordinated with the support of Emergency Management Spatial Information Network Australia (EMSINA).

1. Australian Capital Territory ACT Emergency Services Agency http://esa.act.gov.au/ Australian Federal Police http://afp.gov.au/

2. New South Wales Emergency Information Coordination Unit http://spatialservices.finance.nsw.gov.au/about_us/eicu Australian Federal Police http://afp.gov.au/

3. Northern Territory NT Police Fire & Emergency Services https://www.pfes.nt.gov.au/ Australian Federal Police http://afp.gov.au/

4. Queensland Qld Government Data Directory http://www.data.qld.gov.au/ Australian Federal Police http://afp.gov.au/

5. South Australia SA Country Fire Service https://www.cfs.sa.gov.au SA State Emergency Service https://www.ses.sa.gov.au SA Government Data Directory http://data.sa.gov.au/dataset/emergency-services SA Police https://www.police.sa.gov.au/ Australian Federal Police http://afp.gov.au/

6. Tasmania Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment http://dpipwe.tas.gov.au/ Australian Federal Police http://afp.gov.au/

7. Victoria Vic Government Data Directory https://www.data.vic.gov.au/ Australian Federal Police https://afp.gov.au/

8. Western Australia WA Government Data Directory https://data.wa.gov.au/ St John Ambulance WA https://stjohnwa.com.au/ Australian Federal Police https://afp.gov.au/

A searchable list of Victorian government employers. Explore employers by their department portfolio, industry or their executive employment policy.

The DeveloperVic Catalogue API provides the list of all publicly accessible Victorian Government APIs published on the Developer.Vic portal. The DeveloperVic Catalogue API provides the list of all publicly accessible Victorian Government APIs published on the Developer.Vic portal.

Vocational Education Training Providers by Training Locations, courses offered at locations, occupations related to courses.\r \r Providers - A list of all the Registered Training Organisations (or Training Providers) by site name and address, listed on the Victorian skills gateway website. With url links and email addresses plus a flag indicating if they have a government contract.\r \r Locations - A list of suburbs and Postcodes by LGA and region, it includes a longitude and latitude for the centre of the suburb\r \r Courses - A list of award and accredited courses currently offered in Victoria by Registered Training Organisations (or Training Providers) as listed on the Victorian skills gateway\r \r Course_Providers - A list of links from Courses to Training Provider locations where the courses is currently being offered\r \r Occupations - A list of occupations based on ABS occupation codes or ANZSCO where the Occupation has been linked to an award or accredited course\r \r Course_Occupations - A list of links from Courses to Occupations

This dataset presents the location of business listings from Sands & McDougall's Directory of Victoria. The data was created by digitising the published business directories using an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) process. The extracted information includes the business name, address and business type as listed in the Sands & McDougall directories. The address information was subsequently geocoded to provide a spatial location. The data spans the the Sands & McDougall's Directory of Victoria publication years 1896, 1925 and 1974. Victoria Unearthed is a collection of data which includes past and present information about historical businesses, potential land and groundwater contamination, as well as information about contamination management and cleanup activities. Victoria Unearthed has been created in response to the Independent Inquiry into the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA). For further information about this dataset, visit the data source:Government of Victoria - Department of Land, Water and Planning. Please note: Attributes captured by OCR ("directory address", "business name" and "business type") are uncorrected and may include errors. The positional accuracy is affected by the limitations inherent with OCR and geocoding. Some issues such as changing street names, are exacerbated by the age of the records. The directories were not consistent in the amount of information captured as the business address, in many cases it only lists the town or suburb for the business. A modern (July 2018) property address, street or locality as defined by VicMap has been captured for all records.

AbstractThis dataset is a subset of The Emergency Management Facilities dataset and contains Other Emergency Management Facilities (including AFP and ACT ESA sites) The Emergency Management Facilities dataset presents the spatial locations, in point format, of all known police stations, ambulance stations, metropolitan fire facilities, rural fire facilities, SES facilities and other (AFP and ACT ESA sites) within Australia. Currency Date modified: February 2023 Modification frequency: As needed Data extent Spatial extent North: -9° South: -44° East: 160° West: 92° Source information The primary information sources used to produce the Emergency Management Facilities Dataset was acquired from each Emergency Management State and Territory agency. Access to the required spatial data and attributes for each facility was coordinated with the support of Emergency Management Spatial Information Network Australia (EMSINA). Australian Capital Territory

ACT Emergency Services Agency Australian Federal Police

New South Wales

Emergency Information Coordination Unit Australian Federal Police

Northern Territory

NT Police Fire & Emergency Services Australian Federal Police

Queensland

Qld Government Data Directory Australian Federal Police

South Australia

SA Country Fire Service SA State Emergency Service SA Government Data Directory SA Police Australian Federal Police

Tasmania

Department of Natural Resources and Environment Australian Federal Police

Victoria

Vic Government Data Directory Australian Federal Police

Western Australia

WA Government Data Directory St John Ambulance WA Australian Federal Police

Geoscience Australia catalog entry: Emergency Management Facilities Database Lineage statement Using the previous Emergency Management Facilities datasets (2018) acquired from State and Territory agencies, the data was uploaded into an ArcSDE environment using Feature Manipulation Engine (FME). The process included the extraction of the themed features, and the translation of the data into a schema created by the Built Environment & Exposure Section, National Location Information Branch, Geoscience Australia (GA). In 2023 further FME processing was completed where the dataset was address matched using the original address provided and compared with the Geocoded National Address File (G-NAF) data. If no address match occurred GIS specialists attempted to find a relevant corresponding G-NAF address to join to, where possible. Data dictionary

Attribute name Description

OBJECTID Automatically generated system ID

FEATURETYPE A singled feature type “Emergency Facility” is the collective name of the different facility subtypes identified in the CLASS field.

DESCRIPTION Brief description of the feature type

CLASS The feature type subtypes: Ambulance Station Emergency Management Facility Metro Fire Facility Police Station Rural/Country Fire Service Facility SES Facility

FACILITY_NAME The station/facility name of each individual feature

FACILITY_OPERATIONALSTATUS A description of the facility status Operational (functioning as an Emergency Services facility, does not indicate opening hours or if the facility is staffed) Non-operational (no longer operational as an Emergency Services facility)

FACILITY_ADDRESS The address of this feature, as supplied by the data source

ABS_SUBURB The ABS suburb where this feature is located

FACILITY_STATE The state where this feature is located, as supplied by the data source

ABS_POSTCODE The ABS postcode where this feature is located

FACILITY_ATTRIBUTE_DATE Date of the source material used.

FACILITY_DATE Date of the source material used to capture this feature

FACILITY_SPATIAL_CONFIDENCE Confidence rating of the accuracy of the feature’s spatial location (5 high – 1 low)

FACILITY_REVISED The date the feature was last revised

COMMENT A free text field for adding general comments about this feature to external users

FACILITY_LAT A numerical way to measure the North South position of the feature

FACILITY_LONG A numerical way to measure the East West position of the feature

VALIDATED Additional confirmation of the features accuracy

GNAF_BUILDING_NAME The GNAF station/facility name of each individual feature

GNAF_ADDRESS_DETAIL_PID The unique ID defined within the G-NAF address data

GNAF_FORMATTED_ADDRESS The GNAF address where this feature is located

GNAF_CONFIDENCE 2 - This reflects that all three contributors have supplied an identical address. 1 - This reflects that a match has been achieved between only two contributors. 0 - This reflects that a single contributor holds this address and no match has been achieved with either or the other two contributors. -1 - No match has been achieved but an entry exists

GNAF_POSTCODE The GNAF postcode where this feature is located

GNAF_SUBURB The GNAF suburb where this feature is located

DISTANCE_TO_GNAF Distance of the GNAF from the Emergency management location point in metres

GNAF_LAT A numerical way to measure the North South position of the GNAF feature

GNAF_LONG A numerical way to measure the East West position of the GNAF feature

Contact Geoscience Australia, clientservices@ga.gov.au

Part of VMREFTAB, the set of Reference Tables for the VICMAP suite of products. LGA is a definitive list of Local Government Areas (LGA) names, codes & select attributes for Victoria.

Abstract This dataset is a subset of The Emergency Management Facilities dataset and contains Metro Fire facilities. The Emergency Management Facilities dataset presents the spatial locations, in point format, of all known police stations, ambulance stations, metropolitan fire facilities, rural fire facilities, SES facilities and other (AFP and ACT ESA sites) within Australia. Currency Date modified: February 2023 Modification frequency: As needed Data extent Spatial extent North: -9° South: -44° East: 160° West: 92° Source information The primary information sources used to produce the Emergency Management Facilities Dataset was acquired from each Emergency Management State and Territory agency. Access to the required spatial data and attributes for each facility was coordinated with the support of Emergency Management Spatial Information Network Australia (EMSINA). Australian Capital Territory

ACT Emergency Services Agency Australian Federal Police

New South Wales

Emergency Information Coordination Unit Australian Federal Police

Northern Territory

NT Police Fire & Emergency Services Australian Federal Police

Queensland

Qld Government Data Directory Australian Federal Police

South Australia

SA Country Fire Service SA State Emergency Service SA Government Data Directory SA Police Australian Federal Police

Tasmania

Department of Natural Resources and Environment Australian Federal Police

Victoria

Vic Government Data Directory Australian Federal Police

Western Australia

WA Government Data Directory St John Ambulance WA Australian Federal Police

Geoscience Australia catalog entry: Emergency Management Facilities Database Lineage statement Using the previous Emergency Management Facilities datasets (2018) acquired from State and Territory agencies, the data was uploaded into an ArcSDE environment using Feature Manipulation Engine (FME). The process included the extraction of the themed features, and the translation of the data into a schema created by the Built Environment & Exposure Section, National Location Information Branch, Geoscience Australia (GA). In 2023 further FME processing was completed where the dataset was address matched using the original address provided and compared with the Geocoded National Address File (G-NAF) data. If no address match occurred GIS specialists attempted to find a relevant corresponding G-NAF address to join to, where possible. Data dictionary

Attribute name Description

OBJECTID Automatically generated system ID

FEATURETYPE A singled feature type “Emergency Facility” is the collective name of the different facility subtypes identified in the CLASS field.

DESCRIPTION Brief description of the feature type

CLASS The feature type subtypes: Ambulance Station Emergency Management Facility Metro Fire Facility Police Station Rural/Country Fire Service Facility SES Facility

FACILITY_NAME The station/facility name of each individual feature

FACILITY_OPERATIONALSTATUS A description of the facility status Operational (functioning as an Emergency Services facility, does not indicate opening hours or if the facility is staffed) Non-operational (no longer operational as an Emergency Services facility)

FACILITY_ADDRESS The address of this feature, as supplied by the data source

ABS_SUBURB The ABS suburb where this feature is located

FACILITY_STATE The state where this feature is located, as supplied by the data source

ABS_POSTCODE The ABS postcode where this feature is located

FACILITY_ATTRIBUTE_DATE Date of the source material used.

FACILITY_DATE Date of the source material used to capture this feature

FACILITY_SPATIAL_CONFIDENCE Confidence rating of the accuracy of the feature’s spatial location (5 high – 1 low)

FACILITY_REVISED The date the feature was last revised

COMMENT A free text field for adding general comments about this feature to external users

FACILITY_LAT A numerical way to measure the North South position of the feature

FACILITY_LONG A numerical way to measure the East West position of the feature

VALIDATED Additional confirmation of the features accuracy

GNAF_BUILDING_NAME The GNAF station/facility name of each individual feature

GNAF_ADDRESS_DETAIL_PID The unique ID defined within the G-NAF address data

GNAF_FORMATTED_ADDRESS The GNAF address where this feature is located

GNAF_CONFIDENCE 2 - This reflects that all three contributors have supplied an identical address. 1 - This reflects that a match has been achieved between only two contributors. 0 - This reflects that a single contributor holds this address and no match has been achieved with either or the other two contributors. -1 - No match has been achieved but an entry exists

GNAF_POSTCODE The GNAF postcode where this feature is located

GNAF_SUBURB The GNAF suburb where this feature is located

DISTANCE_TO_GNAF Distance of the GNAF from the Emergency management location point in metres

GNAF_LAT A numerical way to measure the North South position of the GNAF feature

GNAF_LONG A numerical way to measure the East West position of the GNAF feature

Contact Geoscience Australia, clientservices@ga.gov.au

The digital Electoral Boundaries and their legal identifiers have been supplied by the Electoral Commission from each state and territory as well as the Australian Electoral Commission and are …Show full descriptionThe digital Electoral Boundaries and their legal identifiers have been supplied by the Electoral Commission from each state and territory as well as the Australian Electoral Commission and are available below. These boundaries undergo re-distribution depending on population of the electorate before each election. The November 2022 release includes updates to the State Electoral Boundaries for Victoria to include the Electoral Boundaries Redivision 2021, which came into effect on 1 November 2022. Electoral Boundaries are part of Geoscape Administrative Boundaries, which is built and maintained by Geoscape Australia using authoritative government data. Further information about contributors to Administrative Boundaries is available here. The full Administrative Boundaries dataset contains boundaries in seven themes: Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) boundaries, electoral boundaries, state and territory boundaries, local government areas, suburbs/localities, wards and town points. As at November 2019, users have the option to download datasets with feature coordinates referencing the new Geocentric Datum of Australia 2020 (GDA2020) in addition to datasets on the GDA94 datum. For GDA2020 datasets, the name of the zip folder and the root folder (once extracted) include a reference to GDA2020. For GDA94 datasets, the zip and root folder names do not contain the datum name (i.e. they remain the same as previous releases). For example, the zip and root folder for Administrative Boundaries downloaded in GDA2020 for November 2019 looks like this: • NOV19_AdminBounds_ESRIShapefileorDBFfile_GDA2020; or • NOV19_AdminBounds_MapInfoTABFormat_GDA2020 The zip and root folder for Administrative Boundaries in GDA94 for November 2019 looks like this: • NOV19_AdminBounds_ESRIShapefileorDBFfile; or • NOV19_AdminBounds_MapInfoTABFormat Irrespective of the datum chosen, files within the respective folder use exactly the same naming structures. Further information on Administrative Boundaries, including FAQs on the data, is available here through Geoscape Australia’s network of partners. They provide a range of commercial products based on Administrative Boundaries, including software solutions, consultancy and support. Note: On 1 October 2020, PSMA Australia Limited began trading as Geoscape Australia. License Information The Australian Government has negotiated the release of Administrative Boundaries to the whole economy under an open CCBY 4.0 license. Users must only use the data in ways that are consistent with the Australian Privacy Principles issued under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth). Users must also note the following attribution requirements: Preferred attribution for the Licensed Material: Administrative Boundaries © Geoscape Australia licensed by the Commonwealth of Australia under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0). Preferred attribution for Adapted Material: Incorporates or developed using Administrative Boundaries © Geoscape Australia licensed by the Commonwealth of Australia under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0).

Abstract

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The dataset was derived by the Bioregional Assessment Programme from multiple source datasets. The source datasets are identified in the Lineage field in this metadata statement. The processes undertaken to produce this derived dataset are described in the History field in this metadata statement.

This dataset contains the spatial and non-spatial (attribute) components of the Gippsland bioregion Asset List as two .mdb files, which are readable as an MS Access database or as an ESRI Personal Geodatabase.

Under the BA program, a spatial assets database is developed for each defined bioregional assessment project. The spatial elements that underpin the identification of water dependent assets are identified in the first instance by regional NRM organisations (via the WAIT tool) and supplemented with additional elements from national and state/territory government datasets. All reports received associated with the WAIT process for Gippsland are included in the zip file as part of this dataset.

Elements are initially included in the preliminary assets database if they are partly or wholly within the bioregion's preliminary assessment extent (Materiality Test 1, M1). Elements are then grouped into assets which are evaluated by project teams to determine whether they meet the second Materiality Test (M2). Assets meeting both Materiality Tests comprise the water dependent asset list. Descriptions of the assets identified in the Gippsland bioregion are found in the "AssetList" table of the database. In this version of the database only M1 has been assessed.

Assets are the spatial features used by project teams to model scenarios under the BA program. Detailed attribution does not exist at the asset level. Asset attribution includes only the core set of BA-derived attributes reflecting the BA classification hierarchy, as described in Appendix A of "AssetList_database_GIP_v1p2_20150130.doc", located in the zip file as part of this dataset.

The "Element_to_Asset" table contains the relationships and identifies the elements that were grouped to create each asset.

Detailed information describing the database structure and content can be found in the document "AssetList_database_GIP_v1p2_20150130.doc" located in the zip file.

Some of the source data used in the compilation of this dataset is restricted.

Purpose

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Dataset History

This dataset is an update of the previous version of the Gippsland asset list database: "Gippsland Asset List V1 20141210"; ID: 112883f7-1440-4912-8fc3-1daf63e802cb, which was updated with the inclusion of a number of additional datasets from the Victorian Department of the Environment and Primary Industries as identified in the "linkages" section and below.

Victorian Farm Dam Boundaries

https://data.bioregionalassessments.gov.au/datastore/dataset/311a47f9-206d-4601-aa7d-6739cfc06d61

Flood Extent 100 year extent West Gippsland Catchment Management Authority GIP v140701

https://data.bioregionalassessments.gov.au/dataset/2ff06a4f-fdd5-4a34-b29a-a49416e94f15

Irrigation District Department of Environment and Primary Industries GIP

https://data.bioregionalassessments.gov.au/datastore/dataset/880d9042-abe7-4669-be3a-e0fbe096b66a

Landscape priority areas (West)

West Gippsland Regional Catchment Strategy Landscape Priorities WGCMA GIP 201205

https://data.bioregionalassessments.gov.au/datastore/dataset/6c8c0a81-ba76-4a8a-b11a-1c943e744f00

Plantation Forests Public Land Management(PLM25) DEPI GIP 201410

https://data.bioregionalassessments.gov.au/datastore/dataset/495d0e4e-e8cd-4051-9623-98c03a4ecded

and additional data identifying "Vulnerable" species from the datasets:

Victorian Biodiversity Atlas flora - 1 minute grid summary

https://data.bioregionalassessments.gov.au/datastore/dataset/d40ac83b-f260-4c0b-841d-b639534a7b63

Victorian Biodiversity Atlas fauna - 1 minute grid summary

https://data.bioregionalassessments.gov.au/datastore/dataset/516f9eb1-ea59-46f7-84b1-90a113d6633d

A number of restricted datasets were used to compile this database. These are listed in the accompanying documentation and below:

• The Collaborative Australian Protected Areas Database (CAPAD) 2010

• Environmental Assets Database (Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder)

• Key Environmental Assets of the Murray-Darling Basin

• Communities of National Environmental Significance Database

• Species of National Environmental Significance

• Ramsar Wetlands of Australia 2011

Dataset Citation

Bioregional Assessment Programme (2015) GIP AssetList Database v1.2 20150130. Bioregional Assessment Derived Dataset. Viewed 07 February 2017, http://data.bioregionalassessments.gov.au/dataset/6f34129d-50a3-48f7-996c-7a6c9fa8a76a.

Dataset Ancestors

• Derived From Flood Extent 100 year extent West Gippsland Catchment Management Authority GIP v140701

• Derived From Surface Water Economic Entitlements GIP 20141219

• Derived From West Gippsland Regional Catchment Strategy Landscape Priorities WGCMA GIP 20121205

• Derived From Irrigation District Department of Environment and Primary Industries GIP

• Derived From Surface Water and Groundwater Entitlement Data with Volumes - DEPI Regs Cat6 Victoria 20141218

• Derived From Communities of National Environmental Significance Database - RESTRICTED - Metadata only

• Derived From National Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems (GDE) Atlas

• Derived From Victorian Water Supply Protection Areas

• Derived From National Groundwater Information System (NGIS) v1.1

• Derived From Birds Australia - Important Bird Areas (IBA) 2009

• Derived From Southern Rural Water SW Locations with BOM Regulations Category 6 Volumes Gippsland 20150430

• Derived From Gippsland Project boundary

• Derived From Victorian Groundwater Management Areas

• Derived From Plantation Forests Public Land Management(PLM25) DEPI GIP 201410

• Derived From National Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems (GDE) Atlas (including WA)

• Derived From Species Profile and Threats Database (SPRAT) - Australia - Species of National Environmental Significance Database (BA subset - RESTRICTED - Metadata only)

• Derived From Surface Water Entitlement Locations Gippsland Southern Rural Water 20141218

• Derived From Ramsar Wetlands of Australia

• Derived From National Groundwater Information System Victorian Extract (2014-03-21)

• Derived From GEODATA TOPO 250K Series 3

• Derived From Groundwater Licences Entitlement Volume To Bores Vic DEPI 20141021

• Derived From Groundwater Economic Elements Gippsland 20141120

• Derived From Commonwealth Heritage List Spatial Database (CHL)

• Derived From Potential Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems for West Gippsland Catchment Management Authority

• Derived From Victorian Biodiversity Atlas flora - 1 minute grid summary

• Derived From Unreg surface water licences DELWP Gippsland 20150301

• Derived From National Heritage List Spatial Database (NHL) (v2.1)

• Derived From Gippsland Basin bioregion Asset List v01 - 20141210

• Derived From Victorian Farm Dam Boundaries

• Derived From Gippsland Basin bioregion Preliminary Assessment Extent (PAE)

• Derived From [Victoria Regional CMA - Water Asset Information Tool - WAIT

Registered Training Organisations (RTOs) contracted as providers of Victorian Government subsidised training in 2013. Funding is provided through the Victorian Training Guarantee program

Abstract

This dataset and its metadata statement were supplied to the Bioregional Assessment Programme by a third party and are presented here as originally supplied.

This is a polygon coverage representing the wetlands cited in the "A Directory of Important Wetlands in Australia" Third Edition (EA, 2001), plus various additions for wetlands listed after 2001.

This coverage is a compilation of various data sources and has been collected using a variety of methods. This dataset should therefore be used as an indicative guide only to wetland boundaries and locations. The data has been collated by the Australian Government Department of the Environment from various datasets including those supplied by the relevant State agencies.

State agency contributors include the Queensland Environmental Protection Authority, NSW Department of Environment and Conservation and the Victorian Department of Sustainability and Environment.

For the identification of wetland boundaries or locations in regard to the compliance of activities with relevant State legislation, the relevant State authority should be contacted to obtain the most recent and accurate wetland boundary information available.

The criteria for the definition of a wetland used in this dataset is that adopted by the Ramsar Convention, namely: "areas of marsh, fen, peatland or water, whether natural or artificial, permanent or temporary, with water that is static or flowing, fresh, brackish or salt, including areas of marine water the depth of which at low tide does not exceed six meters."

Attributes in the dataset include:

WNAME: the name of the wetland site as listed in the Directory.

REFCODE: an individual reference number including a cross reference to the State in which it occurs. The first 2-3 characters relate to the State or Territory of origin followed by the 3 digit sequential wetland numeric code. (e.g. "NSW001": NSW=New South Wales; 001=wetland number).

SOURCE: the data source for the polygon.

FEAT_CODE: description of the waterbody's hydrographic feature (e.g. 'lake', 'swamp'). This attribute is derived from the TOPO250K.WATERBOD coverage.

STATE: the State or Territory in which the waterbody occurs.

SUPPLY_BY: the name of the agency that supplied the boundary of a wetland and date of supply to the Department

This data was updated on 23/03/2010. The wetlands of "Lake Cowal/Wilbertroy Wetlands" (Refcode: NSW040) has an additional small polygon about 600 km away. It is considered as an error. This additional small polygon was removed.

Credit:

QLD Environmental Protection Agency, June 2005.

Credit:

VIC Department of Sustainability and Environment, April 2004.

Credit:

NSW Department of Environment and Conservation, March 2004

Credit:

Australian Surveying and Land Information Group (1994) TOPO-250K;

Credit:

Department of the Environment and Heritage (1998) CAPAD V2.0;

Credit:

Department of the Environment and Heritage (1997) National Estate - Important Wetlands;

Credit:

ANCA (1996) A Directory of Important Wetlands in Australia 2nd ed;

Credit:

Department of the Environment and Heritage (2001) A Directory of Important Wetlands in Australia 3rd ed.

Dataset History

The coverage was largely derived from the TOPO250K.WATERBOD coverage (AUSLIG, 1992).

A significant portion of some of the wetland boundaries for each state have also been supplied directly from the relevant state agencies. These include the QLD Environmental Protection Agency, NSW Department of Environment and Conservation, and the Victorian Department of Sustainability and Environment.

Data supplied from State agencies may have been collected using different collection methods. These may include remotely sensed images and digitized boundaries from topographic maps or aerial photos.

For the identification of wetland boundaries or locations in regard to the compliance of activities with relevant State legislation, the relevant State authority should be contacted to obtain the most recent and accurate boundary information available.

In general the accuracy of wetland boundaries may be taken to be approximately +/- 250m in most cases.

In considering the accuracy of the wetland boundaries, users of this data should be aware of the dynamic nature of wetland boundaries and their likelihood of experiencing significant alteration over time due to climatic conditions.

Additional datasets used in compiling the Directory of Important Wetlands spatial data include:

Collaborative Australian Protected Areas Database CAPAD (Version 2.0, 1998)

National Estate, Important Wetlands Tasmania (WETLANDSREP97)

20M BUFFERED CENTROIDS: derived from coordinates (DMS) contained in the Wetlands Inventory 2nd Ed. (ANCA, 1996) & 3rd Ed. (EA, 2001).

Location of Cook Island Nature Reserve (off the NSW north coast) updated to match NSW Department of Environment and Climate Change data.

Feburary 2008:

Missing External Territories added to dataset (20M BUFFERED CENTROIDS: derived from coordinates (DMS) as listed in the Australian Wetlands Database, 2001). Missing SA site Upper Hindmarsh River Catchment - SA035 recovered from archives.

September 2008

100 Arce Swamp and Lake Macquarie added.

November 2014

Licence model changed to Creative Commons by Attribution

Dataset Citation

Department of the Environment (2015) Directory of Important Wetlands in Australia (DIWA) Spatial Database (Public). Bioregional Assessment Source Dataset. Viewed 09 October 2018, http://data.bioregionalassessments.gov.au/dataset/6636846e-e330-4110-afbb-7b89491fe567.

The data set is a complete list of important dates for the State of Victoria including: public holidays, school terms, daylight saving, multifaith calendar and parliamentary sitting dates.

The digital State Boundaries and their legal identifiers have been derived from the cadastre data from each state and territory jurisdiction and are available below.

State Boundaries are part of Geoscape Administrative Boundaries, which is built and maintained by Geoscape Australia using authoritative government data. Further information about contributors to Administrative Boundaries is available here.

The full Administrative Boundaries dataset contains boundaries in seven themes: Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) boundaries, electoral boundaries, state and territory boundaries, local government areas, suburbs/localities, wards and town points.

As at November 2019, users have the option to download datasets with feature coordinates referencing the new Geocentric Datum of Australia 2020 (GDA2020) in addition to datasets on the GDA94 datum.

For GDA2020 datasets, the name of the zip folder and the root folder (once extracted) include a reference to GDA2020. For GDA94 datasets, the zip and root folder names do not contain the datum name (i.e. they remain the same as previous releases).

For example, the zip and root folder for Administrative Boundaries downloaded in GDA2020 for November 2019 looks like this:

  •  NOV19_AdminBounds_ESRIShapefileorDBFfile_GDA2020; or 
  •  NOV19_AdminBounds_MapInfoTABFormat_GDA2020

The zip and root folder for Administrative Boundaries in GDA94 for November 2019 looks like this:

  •  NOV19_AdminBounds_ESRIShapefileorDBFfile; or 
  •  NOV19_AdminBounds_MapInfoTABFormat

Irrespective of the datum chosen, files within the respective folder use exactly the same naming structures.

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Note: On 1 October 2020, PSMA Australia Limited began trading as Geoscape Australia.

License Information

The Australian Government has negotiated the release of Administrative Boundaries to the whole economy under an open CCBY 4.0 license.

Users must only use the data in ways that are consistent with the Australian Privacy Principles issued under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth).

Users must also note the following attribution requirements:

Preferred attribution for the Licensed Material:

Administrative Boundaries © Geoscape Australia licensed by the Commonwealth of Australia under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0).

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Incorporates or developed using Administrative Boundaries © Geoscape Australia licensed by the Commonwealth of Australia under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0).

Abstract

This dataset was derived by the Bioregional Assessment Programme. The parent datasets are identified in the Lineage field in this metadata statement. The processes undertaken to produce this derived dataset are described in the History field in this metadata statement.

As outlined in the Methodology for bioregional assessments of the impacts of coal seam gas and coal mining development on water resources (the BA methodology; Barrett et al., 2013), the development of a water-dependent asset register is integral to undertaking a bioregional assessment.

An asset is an entity having value to the community and, for bioregional assessment purposes, is associated with a bioregion. A bioregion is a geographic land area within which coal seam gas and or coal mining developments are, or could, take place and for which bioregional assessments are conducted. A water-dependent asset has a particular meaning for bioregional assessments; it is an asset potentially impacted by changes in the groundwater and or surface water regime due to coal resource development. Some ecological assets are solely dependent on incident rainfall and will not be considered as water dependent if evidence does not support a linkage to groundwater or surface water. The water-dependent asset register is a simple and authoritative listing of the assets within the preliminary assessment extent (PAE) that are potentially subject to water-related impacts. A PAE is the geographic area associated with a bioregion or subregion in which the potential water-related impact of coal resource development on assets is assessed. The compiling of the asset register is the first step to identifying potentially impacted assets, which is the goal of the overall bioregional assessment.

Information about entities having value to the community and that might be affected by water related impacts of coal seam gas (CSG) and large coal mining development is collated from a range of sources into a table of assets within the asset database. There are three types of assets: (i) ecological, (ii) economic and (iii) sociocultural. Many ecological and sociocultural assets were obtained from state and national sources.

Generating the water-dependent asset register requires the development of a comprehensive georeferenced relational database known throughout this submethodology as the asset database. The asset database holds all assets compiled for a BA and the register lists the subset of assets that meet the water dependency criteria, as defined in Section 4. As there may be many assets within each asset class for each bioregion or subregion, each asset must have a unique identifier (AID). A single asset is represented spatially in the asset database by single or multiple spatial features (point, line or polygon). Individual points, lines or polygons are termed 'elements' and must also have a unique identifier (ElementID). An element is a spatially discrete unit and is recorded individually in the element tables.

Assets can be made up of one or more elements. Elements are linked to assets in the database via the 'Element_to_asset' table (see Appendix C in AnR_data_dictionary_GIP_20141210.doc).

Purpose

For creation of asset list for bioregional assessment

Dataset History

The history of this dataset:

10/12/2014 Initial database

Lineage:

Compiled for the Office of Water Science (OWS) Bioregional Assessment Programme.

Refer to associated documentation: AnR_data_dictionary_GIP_20141210.doc

Source datasets:

Source code: WAIT: Victoria

Description: Assets identified by the CMAs/NRMs and Victoria Government.

Custodian: Victoria Government; OWS/ERIN

Source code: DIWA

Description: Important wetlands from the "Directory of Important Wetlands in Australia" that intersect the Preliminary Assessment Extent (PAE).

Custodian: Department of the Environment

Source code: CAPAD

Description: Compiled information on protected areas from state and territory Governments and other protected area managers, published in the Collaborative Australian Protected Area Database (CAPAD) 2010, which identifies protected areas from this dataset that intersect the PAE.

Custodian: Department of the Environment

Notes: RESTRICTED FOR USE WITHIN DEPARTMENT ONLY

Source code: GDEsub

Description: identifies components of ecosystems that may rely on the subsurface presence of groundwater (includes vegetation ecosystems).

Custodian: Bureau of Meteorology

Notes: Likely to contain spatial overlaps with other assets

Source code: GDEsur

Description: identifies components of ecosystems that may rely on the surface expression of groundwater.

Custodian: Bureau of Meteorology

Notes: Likely to contain spatial overlaps with other assets

Source code: IBA

Description: Important Bird Areas (IBAs) are sites of global bird conservation importance. Each IBA meets one of four global criteria used by BirdLife International. Identifies important bird areas (Bundurra-Barrabas and Pilliga) occurring within the PAE.

Custodian: Birds Australia

Threatened Ecological Communities

Source code: TEC

Description: Modelled "known" and "likely" distributions of threatened ecological communities listed under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act 1999.

Custodian: Department of the Environment

Notes: RESTRICTED FOR USE WITHIN DEPARMENT ONLY

Source code: Ramsar

Description: Wetlands of International Importance (Ramsar Wetlands)

Under the Ramsar Criteria, wetlands should be selected for the Ramsar List on account of their international significance in terms of the biodiversity and uniqueness of their ecology, botany, zoology, limnology or hydrology. In addition, the Criteria indicates that in the first instance, wetlands of international importance to waterbirds at any season should be included on the Ramsar List.

Custodian: Department of Environment

Notes: RESTRICTED FOR USE WITHIN DEPARMENT ONLY

Source code: National EPBC Species List

Description: Listed Threatened Species

This dataset describes modelled "known" and "likely" distributions of species of national environmental significance as listed under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act 1999, including from categories: threatened, migratory and marine species, cetaceans and species in other countries covered by international agreements that Australia is a party to. Based on the Database of Species of National Environmental Significance.

Notes: RESTRICTED FOR USE WITHIN DEPARMENT ONLY

WITHIN DEPARMENT ONLY -----

Natural, Historic and Indigenous Heritage Places A number of different lists and registers exist of natural, historic and Indigenous heritage places throughout Australia. These are not comprehensive lists of heritage places, but lists of the places that have been identified and recorded up to the present time. The following registers include places which may be considered as assets under the Bioregional Assessments Program:

Source code: NatHeritage

Description: National Heritage List. Natural, historic and Indigenous places that are of outstanding national heritage value to the Australian nation.

Source code: RNE

Description: Register of the National Estate Archive of information about more than 13,000 places throughout Australia.

Custodian: Department of Environment

Source code: WHA

Description: World Heritage Areas

The World Heritage Convention aims to promote cooperation among nations to protect heritage from around the world that is of such outstanding universal value that its conservation is important for current and future generations.

Custodian: Department of Environment

Use Limitations Limited for use only for the Office of Water Science Bioregional Assessments Program. Refer to source dataset metadata as referenced in the AnR data description document provided.

Access Contraints Limited for use only for the Office of Water Science Bioregional Assessments Program. Some source datasets used in the compilation of this asset list are confidential. Refer to source dataset metadata as referenced in the AnR data description document provided.

Note: detailed descriptions of the following ecological spatial data layers are found in documentation accompanying the assets on the BA repository, rather than within this metadata. These ecological spatial data layers as follows: VIC_FFG_FAUNA (VIC state FFG species with EPBC species removed (VIC DEPI)), VIC_FFG_FLORA (VIC state FFG species with EPBC species removed (VIC DEPI)), VIC_GDE_EASTandWEST_GIP (East Gippsland Potential GDE 2013 and West Gippsland Potential GDE 2014 (VIC DEPI)), Vic_nv2005_evcbcs (VIC state listed Ecological Vegetation Communities 2005 (VIC DEPI)), VIC_VICADV_FAUNA (VIC state VICADV species with EPBC species removed (VIC DEPI)), VIC_VICADV_FLORA (VIC state VICADV species with EPBC species removed (VIC DEPI)).

Note: detailed descriptions of economic spatial data layers are found in documentation accompanying the economic assets on the BA repository, rather than within this document. These economic spatial data layers as follows: ECON_GW_VIC_GMA (Economic Groundwater VIC Groundwater Management Area), ECON_SW_VIC_RegRiv (Economic Surface Water VIC Regulated River), ECON_SW_VIC_UnRegRiv (Economic Surface Water VIC Unregulated River), ECON_GW_VIC_WSPA (Economic Groundwater VIC Water Supply Protection Area) and VIC_DEPI_ECON_GW (VIC DEPI Economic Groundwater).

Dataset Citation

Bioregional Assessment Programme (2014) Gippsland Basin bioregion Asset List v01 - 20141210. Bioregional Assessment Derived Dataset. Viewed 07 February 2017, http://data.bioregionalassessments.gov.au/dataset/112883f7-1440-4912-8fc3-1daf63e802cb.

Dataset Ancestors

• **Derived

Listing of all school locations in City of Casey. Includes primary and secondary schools, government and non-government. Information collected as part of the ongoing registration of schools. School details include name, school sector, school type, address, phone number.

This dataset is part of the Geographical repository maintained by Opendatasoft. This dataset contains data for Local Government Areas in Australia.The ASGS Local Government Areas are an ABS approximation of gazetted local government boundaries as defined by each State and Territory Local Government Department. Local Government Areas cover incorporated areas of Australia. Incorporated areas are legally designated parts of a State or Territory over which incorporated local governing bodies have responsibility. The major areas of Australia not administered by incorporated bodies are the northern parts of South Australia, and all of the Australian Capital Territory and the Other Territories. These regions are identified as ‘Unincorporated’ in the ASGS Local Government Areas structure.More information on local governments can be found at the Australian Local Government Association website: http://www.alga.asn.au The suffix on Long Official Name Local Government Area indicates the Local Government Area status: Cities (C), Areas (A), Rural Cities (RC), Boroughs (B), Shires (S), Towns (T), Regional Councils (R), Municipalities/Municipal Councils (M), District Councils (DC), Regional Councils (RegC), Aboriginal Councils (AC).Processors and tools are using this data.EnhancementsAdd ISO 3166-3 codes.Simplify geometries to provide better performance across the services.