Ivanhoe Girls Grammar – Safe Public Transport Bill 2019 (Youth Parliament)
I am pleased to rise today to commend a group of talented young women from Ivanhoe Girls Grammar who presented their safe public transport bill to me last week. As part of our Youth Parliament program, the girls debated and passed a bill to implement new safety measures around public transport infrastructure and high-risk areas for women.
ADJOURNMENT – Redbook Inspections
The commercial passenger vehicle industry knows that the RedBook inspection makes a mockery of VicRoads’s roadworthy standards. So I ask the minister to take immediate action and stop the regulator undermining the government’s road safety initiatives and VicRoads’ standards on licensed roadworthiness certificates.
QUESTION – BULLEEN ART AND GARDEN
I asked the Minister for Planning to detail the process for compulsory acquisition of the Bulleen Industrial Zone businesses.
QUESTION – MURRAY BASIN RAIL PROJECT
I asked the Minister for Transport Infrastructure to fix and finish the Murray Basin Rail Project.
ADJOURNMENT – Diamond Valley Special Developmental School
I’ve invited the Minister for Education to visit the Diamond Valley Special Development School to meet with staff and see first hand the wonderful work that is being done there.
MEMBERS STATEMENT – Homelessness and CEO Sleepout
There is no single fix that will end homelessness and poverty in Australia. We need sustained action, solidarity and compassion, because this is an issue that touches us all in some way.
QUESTION – Family and Domestic Violence Funding
Many front line domestic violence services face uncertainty about funding in the new financial year, so I asked the minister to outline the funding for domestic violence initiatives in the next financial year.
We cannot support the reforms of the CFA
In his address to Parliament this week Mr Barton said he would not support the Firefighters’ Presumptive Rights Compensation and Fire Services Legislation Amendment (Reform) Bill 2019.
North East Link public hearings
I asked the Minister for Planning to assure locals appearing at the North East Link panel hearings that it will not be an interrogation requiring them to ‘lawyer up’ and defend their point of view.
MOTION – Inquiry in homelessness in Victoria
My motion asks the Legal and Social Issues Committee to provide an independent analysis of the changing scale and nature of homelessness across Victoria. We need to get a proper handle on this. I want the committee to investigate why, and what are the many social, economic and policy factors that impact on homelessness, and I want the committee to identify policies and practices from all levels of government that have a bearing on delivering services to the homeless.