Victoria’s yearly document ‘dump day’ reveals a mix of good, bad and ugly

Some of the 241 annual reports released on one day by the Victorian government – and rifled through by overworked journalists. Photograph: Joel Carrett/AAP

Every year, the Victorian parliament partakes in a tradition that has come to be known as “dump day”.

Usually towards the end of the sitting year, the government will release a bewildering number of annual reports at once, presumably so that journalists and other interested parties are rendered physically incapable of taking them all in.