Thursday, 31 October 2024

South-Eastern

Ann-Marie HERMANS (South-Eastern Metropolitan) (13:00): (1218) My constituency question is to the Minister for Housing. My office was recently contacted by two Sri Lankan constituents with challenges in speaking English who are facing eviction from their rental home today – not tomorrow but today. My staff made inquiries of your department, whose staff, I note, were very helpful; however, they advised that the category that these people fell into was the sixth lowest category on the department’s seven-level priority list. This means they have essentially no chance of being helped ever. This local example is but one of tens of thousands of real examples of Victorians let down by you and your government due to its mismanagement. This includes the gross financial mismanagement of major projects here in Victoria, which has resulted in tens of billion dollars in taxpayer dollars being wasted in major project blowouts. Minister, when will you actually sort out the complete mess you and your government have made of the public housing system in Victoria?