The department produces a regular newsletter for the cemetery sector.
Please note that previous editions of the newsletter provided below for reference may contain information that has since become out-of-date. Please refer to the relevant pages on this website for current information on cemetery topics.
For more information or to receive older copies of newsletters, please contact the department on 1800 034 280 or email cemeteries@health.vic.gov.au.
Newsletter editions
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Topics in this issue:
- Manager’s update
- Road upgrades at Maryborough Cemetery
- Back-up copies of cemetery records
- Pet burials update
- Desecration of war graves
- Victorian Information Commissioner – protection measures for trust records
- Cemetery grants 2025-26
- Consumer Price Index increase to fees 1 July 2026
- Australian Business Number (ABN)
- Tax residency
- Electronic banking and phasing out of cheques
- Did you know?
- Free governance training
- Links to key resources
- Newsletter ideas
Cemetery Sector newsletter - Edition 1 - 2026docx 253.11 KB -
Topics in this issue:
- Pet burials
- Fire season 2025-26
- Cemetery Grants Program
- Abstract of accounts
- Change to funerals Act
- Updated forms
- Did you know
- Safety in and around graves
- Trust email addresses
- Developing policies
- Conflicts of interest
- Free governance training
Cemetery Sector newsletter - Edition 3 - 2025docx 296.96 KB -
Topics in this issue:
- New Cemeteries and Crematoria Regulations
- New department contact for statutory approvals
- Length of Class B cemetery trust member terms
- Kerang Cemetery Trust grant project
- Depth of interring cremated remains
- Assistance program for low activity cemeteries
- Did you know?
- Abstract of accounts due 1 September
- Should cemetery trusts bundle fees?
- When a trust’s primary contact is unavailable
- Electronic banking and the removal of cheques
- Native vegetation
- Application to establish or alter a memorial
- Free information sessions by the Victorian Public Sector Commission
- Free governance training
Cemetery Sector Governance Support Unit newsletter - Edition 2 - 2025docx 577.62 KBAttachment to Edition 2, 2025 newsletter:
Changes to the Cemeteries and Crematoria Regulations - Summary for Class B cemetery trustsdocx 141.64 KB
Reviewed 06 April 2026
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