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Integrity and Oversite Committee - Performance of the Victorian Integrity Agencies 2020/21: Focus on Witness Welfare

I rise to speak on the report Performance of the Victorian Integrity Agencies 2020/21: Focus on Witness Welfare. This is a report that was referenced in the extraordinary letter that we are now all in receipt of or have all seen written to the Parliament by the former chair of...

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Adjournment - South Yarra Train Station

My adjournment is for the Minister for Public Transport, and the action I seek is a further stage of upgrades to South Yarra station. South Yarra station is the second-busiest station outside the CBD. It is right next to the Forest Hill growth area, where significant development is still taking...

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Question Without Notice - Hydrogen Energy Supply Chain

My question is for the Minister for Trade and Investment, and it is in relation to the HESC brown-coal-to-hydrogen project. Minister, why on earth is the government continuing to support a project that would prolong the use of fossil fuels in Victoria and add to our state’s carbon emissions during...

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Question Without Notice - Hydrogen Energy Supply Chain

Within this project, in order to deal with the massive amounts of carbon emissions that it would produce, the project is relying on carbon capture and storage. The reality is the maths is in on carbon capture and storage: it does not work. So why is the government continuing to...

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Matter of Public Importance - Government Performance

I rise, and, look, I am a bit disappointed that the member for Ovens Valley has not stayed in the chamber, because I reckon you can get a good latte in the Ovens Valley – is it Bright, I think? Last time I was in Bright I reckon you could...

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Members statement: Duck Hunting Season 2023

An overwhelming majority of Victorians want to see duck shooting outlawed. A member: Boo. That’s right – boo to duck shooting; I concur with the member below me. More than two-thirds of Victorians agree the duck shooting should be banned. It is a practice that has no place in Victoria....

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Question without Notice: Wage cap

Mr HIBBINS: My question is to the Treasurer. Treasurer, over the past year inflation has risen to 7.8 per cent, the cost of food has increased by over 9 per cent and the cost of housing has increased by over 10 per cent, yet the government’s public sector wages policy...

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Constituency question: Pop up bike lanes

My constituency question is for the Minister for Roads and Road Safety, and I ask: what is the latest information on pop-up bike lanes in the Prahran electorate? There have been three deaths of cyclists on Victorian roads in the past fortnight, showing just how important safe separated bike infrastructure...

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Address-in-reply 2023

I rise to speak to the address-in-reply to the Governor’s speech, and although this is not my first speech, I have been informed that my children may be tuning in through the live stream. We felt it about time that they see what Papa gets up to in the big...

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Adjournment: Recommendations from Ombudsman’s Investigation

My adjournment matter is for the Minister for Housing and the action I seek is that the minister adopts the recommendations of the Ombudsman’s investigation into complaint handling in the Victorian social housing sector, which was released in July last year. Prahran is home to several public housing estates, and...

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