Media Release – Time for Action: Homelessness Report Provides Practical Recommendations
‘While this may be the end of the inquiry, this is the beginning of seeing real change that will tackle homelessness, save lives and provide wrap-around support to those in need.’
Constituent Question
Why were the individuals experiencing homelessness kicked out of hotel accommodation and not placed into suitable housing when the government extended the funding to April?
Asking for justice: repair the suffering, pain and loss caused by the 2017 reforms.
Asking for Justice…Rod moved for the government to acknowledge that taxi licences were valuable items of property and to repair the damage of past reforms.
Yeng Gali Mullum – A Reconciliation Choir
We were contacted by the Yeng Gali Mullum choir, a reconciliation choir that was started by the elders in 2014 at the Mullum Mullum Indigenous Gathering Place in Melbourne’s outer east.
Question – Re-launching the Taxi & Hire Car Industry
Commercial Passenger Vehicles Victoria is responsible for outlining the rules and perimeters that dictate this industry, one would thought that as the regulator, they would have statutory responsibilities to ensure the taxi and hire car industry has a plan to move forward.
150 Cambridge Road Kilsyth
Why have the community not been considered on this ruling that will greatly limit their access to local parkland?
A Metre Matters
Earlier this month, I took part in the Legislative Council Economy and Infrastructure Standing Committee’s public hearing on the Inquiry into the Increase in Victoria’s Road Toll. Among the many valuable presenters invited to this hearing, the Committee was joined by Australia’s leading cycling safety charity, the Amy Gillett Foundation (AGF), who presented on their priorities to keep road users safe in Victoria.
Boating Safety
Under the current COVID-19 restrictions, Victorian vessels are unable to be serviced. The Boating Industry Association of Victoria (BIAV) states this poses a major safety risk to approximately 16,000 registered vessels that have not been serviced.
VicHealth Grants Open
“I encourage all local sporting clubs, community gardens, art organisations, community groups and youth service in the area to apply for funding to support our community” – Rod Barton