Tuesday, 13 August 2024

 Anthony CARBINES (Ivanhoe – Minister for Police, Minister for Crime Prevention, Minister for Racing) (19:24): There were several matters raised by members, including from the member for the South-West Coast to the Minister for Environment about the cutting back of vegetation at the surf lifesaving club in Warrnambool. She outlined those details. The member for Tarneit, for the Tarneit Tigers, raised a matter for the Minister for Community Sport seeking a visit to look at the fantastic sports infrastructure projects across his electorate. The member for Gippsland South raised a matter with the Minister for Energy and Resources for the withdrawal of the draft Victorian transmission plan. The member for Sunbury raised a matter for the Minister for Education seeking a visit at the amazing Gladstone Park Secondary College. The member for Narracan raised a matter for the Minister for Roads and Road Safety particularly for funding for the local road network and some significant serious issues with the road network across the electorate of Narracan.

The member for Laverton raised a matter for the Minister for Community Sport seeking that the minister join her in Laverton to visit some of the fantastic sporting clubs across Melbourne’s west, particularly those across the Laverton electorate. The member for Euroa raised a matter for the Minister for Planning, in conversations with herself and others across her electorate, around the important matter of rejecting the Viva Energy renewable energy project which affects communities like Colbinabbin. I remember being in Colbinabbin – I nearly ran out of fuel and I went and got some in Colbinabbin West. I will pass on that matter to the Minister for Planning.

The member for Footscray raised a matter for the Minister for Community Sport, who is going to be very busy after this adjournment. She is also going to visit the Shorten Reserve and the clubs that are working there that use that as their base for a number of local sporting development programs and projects. The member for Benambra raised a matter for the Minister for Health particularly around the very significant $558 million makeover of the Albury Wodonga Health service, addressing the significant shortage in the development plans and the designs there for car parking services for local people. The member for Bellarine raised a matter for the Minister for Government Services about the Connecting Victoria program and the work it is doing to boost mobile coverage and the like, particularly for local communities in her amazing electorate down there on the Bellarine, like St Leonards and others that she mentioned. I will be sure to pass all of those matters onto the relevant ministers.

The DEPUTY SPEAKER: That was democracy manifest, and the house stands adjourned until tomorrow morning.

House adjourned 7:26 pm.