My question is to the Minister for Roads and Road Safety. Five Gatto-linked M1 companies are still listed as accredited traffic management companies by the department of transport. Which roads and projects are these companies currently working on? Paul HAMER (Box Hill – Minister for Roads and Road Safety) (14:23): I have made it very…
My adjournment matter is for the Minister for Police, and the action I seek is for the minister to immediately restore the operating hours of police stations across my electorate of Lowan. Last week I attended the Horsham police station just after 10 am. I did not realise it at the time, but we have…
Shadow Minister for Mental Health, Emma Kealy, has called for an urgent inquiry into child and youth mental health services in Victoria following revelations of two youth suicide clusters in Melbourne’s east. Ms Kealy said the revelations exposed a system that only reviews a child’s death if they had already been treated within the public…
Families across Lowan are being hit hard by the rising cost of everyday essentials under Labor, with new analysis showing an average regional Victorian family is now paying more than $8000 a year for power, water, council rates and fuel. Figures from the Australian Energy Regulator and Essential Services Commission highlight a simple reality for…
The Nationals will cancel the Carroll Labor Government’s VNI West transmission project, delivering certainty to regional farmers and communities who have spent years fighting to protect their land. VNI West does not stack up, has no social licence in the communities it impacts, and will be cancelled. The Nationals remain committed to reviewing the entire…
Agriculture is not just another land use. Our farmers grow our food, support our regional economies and underpin communities right across Victoria. But under Labor farmland is seen as vacant land ripe for development. Under Labor, productive farmland and property rights are under increasing pressure from poorly planned development, transmission infrastructure, renewable energy projects, mining…
I move: That I introduce a bill for an act to amend the Planning and Environment Act 1987 and the Environment Effects Act 1978 in relation to agricultural land and for other purposes. Victoria is Australia’s largest agriculture-producing state, accounting for approximately 28 per cent of Australia’s gross value of agricultural production, with a farmgate…
My constituency matter is to the Minister for Roads and Road Safety, and the information I seek is: when will the roads in western Victoria and in my electorate of Lowan be made safe? We have seen over the past week the disastrous impacts of Labor’s ongoing cuts to the road asset maintenance budget. It…
I continue on the Safe Patient Care (Nurse to Patient and Midwife to Patient Ratios) Amendment Bill 2026. This is a very important piece of legislation because the aspiration, what the government is setting out to achieve, is a good thing and is important. We need to ensure that people who enter Victoria’s public health…
The Liberals and Nationals have today introduced a private members bill in the Victorian Parliament to protect the state’s most strategic agricultural land from being permanently lost to poorly considered development. Shadow Minister for Agriculture Emma Kealy said the Planning and Environment Amendment (Agricultural Land and Food Security) Bill 2026 would ensure agriculture is finally…
