Northern Victoria Region
Wendy LOVELL (Northern Victoria) (12:41): (36) My consistency question is for the Minister for Health. During the last sitting week I highlighted the heartless behaviour and governance failures of the board of Remembrance Parks Central Victoria and called on the minister to remove the current board and appoint an administrator until a new board could be appointed. To date the minister has failed to take action. Since my contribution I have received numerous complaints from constituents regarding the relationship between the board chair Marg Lewis and the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly. They are cousins, which is a fact documented in Hansard. Mrs Lewis is also a former Labor MP. Mrs Lewis’s appointment as chair of RPCV smacks of both nepotism and cronyism – a fact that is not lost on the many constituents who have contacted my office. Minister, isn’t it a fact that the reason you have failed to remove the board of directors of RPCV is because the chair Mrs Lewis is related to the Speaker and also has a history as a Labor MP?