Wednesday, 7 February 2024
Questions without notice and ministers statements
Lord’s Prayer
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Commencement
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Papers
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Business of the house
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Committees
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Economy and Infrastructure Committee
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Reporting dates
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Members statements
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Rye infrastructure
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Black Saturday
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Education funding
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Melbourne to Warrnambool Cycling Festival
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Cape Otway Road Australia
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Education system
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South-Eastern Metropolitan Region citizenship ceremonies
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Australia Day awards
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Docklands
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Australia Day awards
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Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards
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Treaty
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School cleaning
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Bills
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Drugs, Poisons and Controlled Substances Amendment (Pill Testing Pilot for Drug Harm Reduction) Bill 2023
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Statement of compatibility
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Second reading
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Production of documents
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Port of Hastings
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Illicit tobacco
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Motions
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Youth justice system
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Questions without notice and ministers statements
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Yarra riverkeeper
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Ministers statements: flood recovery
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Duck hunting
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Cherry Creek Youth Justice Centre
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Ministers statements: housing
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Lord’s Prayer
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Vocational education and training
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Ministers statements: early childhood education
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Middle East conflict
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Cherry Creek Youth Justice Centre
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Ministers statements: youth mental health services
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Written responses
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Constituency questions
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Northern Metropolitan Region
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Eastern Victoria Region
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South-Eastern Metropolitan Region
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Southern Metropolitan Region
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Western Victoria Region
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South-Eastern Metropolitan Region
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Northern Victoria Region
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Northern Metropolitan Region
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Eastern Victoria Region
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Northern Victoria Region
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South-Eastern Metropolitan Region
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Western Victoria Region
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Motions
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Business of the house
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Notices of motion
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Motions
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Firewood collection
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Business of the house
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Notices of motion and orders of the day
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Statements on tabled papers and petitions
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Select Committee on Victoria’s Recreational Native Bird Hunting Arrangements
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Inquiry into Victoria’s Recreational Native Bird Hunting Arrangements
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Select Committee on Victoria’s Recreational Native Bird Hunting Arrangements
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Inquiry into Victoria’s Recreational Native Bird Hunting Arrangements
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Select Committee on Victoria's Recreational Native Bird Hunting Arrangements
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Inquiry into Victoria’s Recreational Native Bird Hunting Arrangements
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Select Committee on Victoria’s Recreational Native Bird Hunting Arrangements
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Inquiry into Victoria’s Recreational Native Bird Hunting Arrangements
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Economy and Infrastructure Committee
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Inquiry into the Workplace Injury Rehabilitation and Compensation Amendment (WorkCover Scheme Modernisation) Bill 2023
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Adjournment
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Small business support
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Medicinal cannabis
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Greenvale pedestrian safety
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Treaty
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Ballarto–Potts roads, Skye
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Grey-headed flying fox sanctuary
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Illicit tobacco
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Cost of living
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Health and wellbeing data
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Tasty Plate
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Eating disorders
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Central west national parks
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Country Fire Authority Wooragee station
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Responses
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Joint sitting of Parliament
Lord’s Prayer
Rikkie-Lee TYRRELL (Northern Victoria) (12:23): (402) My question today is for the Leader of the Government. For over 100 years the Lord’s Prayer has marked the commencement of the sitting of Parliament. It signifies the commitment we as members of Parliament have made to serve King and country. Due to recent media speculation, is the Allan Labor government considering removing this long-honoured tradition?
Members interjecting.
The PRESIDENT: I think the minister has had similar questions as well, so I will call the Leader of the Government.
Jaclyn SYMES (Northern Victoria – Attorney-General, Minister for Emergency Services) (12:23): I thank Mrs Tyrrell for her question, but what I would have to clarify in the first instance is that it is not a government matter, it is a Parliament matter, so any change to practices would be done with the agreement of the chamber. There is a view held by people from this chamber, which is exercised obviously by people that do not attend the very start of the day, that they have a desire to see it change. I have an unmet commitment to address this. It is something that I would like to have further conversations with parties within the chamber on. I have got to say I have had some other priorities that have taken my attention, but it is something that remains a matter that I would like, as leader and as a member of the chamber, to have conversations about. But to characterise it as an Allan Labor government commitment is not something that we would do, because particularly in this place we do everything by consensus.