The Ovens Murray 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.
Bordering the Murray River to the north and having unique access to Victoria's High Country, the Ovens Murray region is best known for its lifestyle advantages and thriving tourism sector based on cycling, snow, nature-based tourism, food, wine, craft beer and cultural heritage. The region is also strategically located on national freight and transport routes servicing Australia’s east coast and has strong manufacturing and service centres.
Our region includes:
- seven municipalities (Alpine Shire, Benalla Rural City, Indigo Shire, Mansfield Shire, Towong Shire , Wangaratta Rural City, Wodonga City)
- four alpine resorts (Falls Creek, Mount Buller, Mount Hotham, Mount Stirling)
- Gross Regional Product of $7.7 billion (2022)
- population of 135,100 (2022)
- over 5 million High Country visitors per year.
Our focus
Since its establishment in 2016, the Ovens Murray Regional Partnership has continued to consult with its communities and evolve its priority actions against long-term outcomes with the help of evidence-based research, expert advice and current data.
We dedicate our time to focusing on issues that can help transform the region across three platforms: social outcomes, environmental outcomes and economic development outcomes.
Within this context, we put our efforts toward region-wide transformative projects and/or localised projects with multiple outcomes across multiple sectors that need a joined-up approach both within community and within government.