Northern Victoria Region
Gaelle BROAD (Northern Victoria) (12:53): (518) My question is to the Minister for Regional Development and relates to the Bendigo GovHub, the three-storey government offices built in the centre of Bendigo that cost taxpayers $133 million. While it was built to accommodate up to 1000 Victorian government and City of Greater Bendigo employees, concerns have been raised that a whole floor of the building remains vacant, and few people are actually working in the office. Given that the state government cancelled the Commonwealth Games and the jobs that came with it, that Regional Development Victoria employees have recently been advised of redundancies that will see further jobs lost in the region, that an authority declined to relocate to the building due to the lack of available parking and that the City of Greater Bendigo provides flexible work-from-home arrangements for staff, can the minister please advise how many staff are actually working in the Bendigo GovHub and provide an update on the status of office locations around Bendigo that are now vacant due to the relocation of government employees?