My question is to the Minister for Disability, and the information I seek is: why has it become increasingly difficult to obtain a Victorian companion card for Victorians who have a severe and permanent disability and cannot access community events or travel on public transport without a companion? I was recently contacted by a local…
My adjournment matter is for the Minister for Energy and Resources, and the action I seek is for the minister to immediately halt the VNI West transmission project, to undertake a full review of Victoria’s transmission plan to ensure it is reflective of modern and emerging energy technologies and to assess the value proposition and…
My question is to the Premier. Geoffrey Watson stated in his report that on the Big Build women were required to ‘offer sexual services’ to a labour hire operator in order to obtain employment. Under the Victorian law this may be sexual assault or even rape. What action has the Premier taken since the release…
When the Premier was first appointed to that role in this state she proudly said she was from regional Victoria and would be a Premier for regional Victorians. And yet here we are, with money being funnelled to bikies and criminal gangs and to use strippers to motivate men for overnight shifts, instead of money…
I would like to respond to the member for Greenvale, who questioned what we would cut. I can tell you what we would cut: we would not have strippers on Big Build sites. I reckon that we could clearly cut a few bucks out of doing that. I reckon that when you need to bring…
My question is to the Minister for Women. Minister, how do jobs reserved for state-sponsored strippers on Big Build sites show respect to women? Mary-Anne THOMAS (Macedon – Leader of the House, Minister for Health, Minister for Ambulance Services, Minister for Women) (14:24): I thank the member for her question. The Premier has been very…
I rise today to speak on the Health Safeguards for People Born with Variations in Sex Characteristics Bill 2025. I would firstly like to acknowledge the community who have contributed strongly and advocated for changes in regard to supportive legislation to recognise that this is not only a complex area but also a very small…
I rise today to speak on the Justice Legislation Further Amendment (Miscellaneous) Bill 2025. This is an omnibus bill which has been reflected upon by previous speakers, and I am sure that each speaker will pick up a certain element of it that is relevant to their constituency, relevant to their personal interests, particularly aggrieves…
I would like to speak to the Public Accounts and Estimates Committee 2024–25 budget estimates report from October 2024, and I would like to specifically highlight today matters regarding the Department of Transport and Planning specifically related to the public and active transport portfolio. There are aspects within this report which reflect upon the regional…
Late last year I attended the 150-year celebration of Horsham fire brigade. Horsham town hall was filled with volunteer firefighters and emergency services workers, acknowledging the many disasters that they had attended over the past century and a half. Little did I know that less than two months later it would be the same assembly…
