Constituency Question – My question is for the Minister for Public Transport. What is the government doing to progress a review of the Shepparton and Mooroopna town bus networks? The network has had no substantial update since 2009 and indeed the last review was in 2006, some 14 years ago. Many other towns have had […]

Members Statement: Today I pay tribute to John Gray, a respected civic leader and friend from the Shepparton community who recently died at the age of 82. He was an educator who did his teachers training at Burwood Teachers College and eventually was sent to St Germains, a small hamlet near Shepparton. Over the years […]

Question without notice: …Minister, will you send more assistance from Melbourne and other regional clinics that you have already established to Goulbourn Valley Health to get this testing done and ensure that the test results are made available as quickly as possible to each and every person who is submitting themselves for those tests? Minister […]

Adjournment debate – My adjournment is for the Minister for Agriculture in the other place. The action I seek is for the Minister to meet with fruit grower representatives in the Goulburn Valley to discuss their need to have access to seasonal workers for the forthcoming harvest. The Goulburn Valley is widely known for its […]

Thank you, Acting Speaker. I am pleased to speak today on the Public Health and Wellbeing Amendment (State of Emergency Extension and Other Matters) Bill 2020. What an extraordinary year 2020 has been. Some of us have experienced recessions before—several of them—but not a pandemic such as this. The impact of this pandemic has been worldwide, and […]