SEA VIEW HOUSE, PORTLAND: FUTURE

My adjournment matter this evening is directed to the Minister for Health, David Davis. It relates to Sea View House in Portland. As the minister would be aware, issues around the future of Sea View House have been the basis for community concern for at least the last 15 months or so. I have read…

HELEN DAVIS

I rise to pay tribute to Helen Davis, who passed away last week. Helen was a lifelong union and community activist. Helen’s working life in Victoria started at Mistral Fans, where she became a shop steward for over 300 people, serving them for more than eleven and a half years. Then in the early 1980s…

REPORTING DATE

By leave, I move: That the resolution of the Council of 5 April 2011 requiring the Environment and Planning References Committee to inquire into, consider and report on environmental design and public health in Victoria within 12 months be amended so as to now require the committee to present its final report by 31 May…

BARWON VALLEY SCHOOL: RECREATION FACILITIES

Ms TIERNEY (Western Victoria) — My adjournment matter this evening is directed to the Minister for Education and relates to recreational space at the Barwon Valley School in Geelong. A concerned parent of a young man attending his last year at the school recently wrote to the Geelong Advertiser expressing concerns about the lack of…

MENTAL HEALTH: ADVICE LINE

The Baillieu government’s decision to shut down Victoria’s only dedicated 24-hour mental health advice line is nothing short of a disgrace. At a time when governments should be supporting vulnerable members of our community, the Baillieu government has seen fit to abolish, without consultation, a very important support service for those Victorians suffering mental illness.…

COMMUNITY STONEWALLED ON TORQUAY HIGH SCHOOL

After 15 months of complete and utter debacle by the Baillieu Government on the new Torquay Secondary School, the Torquay community’s question of when their new school will be ready continues to remain unanswered. Speaking in Parliament today, Member for Western Victoria, Gayle Tierney has again raised the concerns of Torquay families after receiving numerous…

SCHOOLS: TORQUAY

After 15 months of complete and utter debacle by the Baillieu government on the new Torquay secondary school, the Torquay community’s question of when its new school will be ready remains unanswered. To say that the school community in Torquay is frustrated with the Baillieu government’s lack of communication and information would be a gross…

RAIL: MARSHALL STATION

My adjournment matter is for the Minister for Public Transport, and it is in relation to the Marshall railway station, which is located south of Geelong. It is the last train station from Melbourne for services that do not continue through the south-west to Warrnambool via Colac. Each week 138 services stop at the Marshall…

VICTORIAN FAMILIES STATEMENT

Ms TIERNEY (Western Victoria) — I too will make a statement on the government’s 2011 Victorian Families Statement, and I will begin by talking about what matters to families. I am going to concentrate my remarks on two paragraphs that are contained in section 1. The report describes how families are quite different from each…

JIM MELBOURNE

I take this opportunity to congratulate our most recent Stawell Citizen of the Year, Jim Melbourne, who was awarded this great honour on Australia Day this year. Jim Melbourne is a long-time resident of Stawell with a particular passion for history. Under Jim’s guidance the Stawell Historical Society is now considered to be the best…

EMPLOYMENT: GEELONG

My adjournment matter this evening is for the Minister for Ports, Dr Napthine, and it is in relation to the Geelong port. On 27 July 2011 the minister was in Geelong to officially launch a discussion paper released by the coalition government on the relocation of the roll-on, roll-off car trade from Melbourne to the…

VICTORIAN HONOUR ROLL OF WOMEN: INDUCTEES

I also take this opportunity to mention the significant number of women from Western Victoria Region who were recently inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women. I congratulate them as they join the ranks of other important women from the region such as Vida Goldstein, Henrietta Dugdale, Fanny Brownbill, Josie Black and Jill Smith.

BELLARINE AGRICULTURAL SHOW

On Sunday I had the pleasure of attending the 2012 Bellarine Agricultural Show. Unlike the past few years, the rain held off and a good time was had by all. Livestock and horse competitions were fiercely fought, only to be matched by the high quality of horticultural and cooking exhibits. Traditional handicrafts were displayed and…

EMERGENCY SERVICES LEGISLATION AMENDMENT BILL 2011

It is a pleasure to rise this morning and speak on the Emergency Services Legislation Amendment Bill 2011, which amends several acts, including the Country Fire Authority Act 1958, the Metropolitan Fire Brigades Act 1958, the Victoria State Emergency Service Act 2005, the Emergency Management Act 1986, the Emergency Services Telecommunications Authority Act 2004, the…

RAIL: NORTH SHORE STATION

On 17 February this year the Geelong Advertiser revealed that the Baillieu government has scrapped the money set aside by the previous Labor government to upgrade North Shore station, Geelong’s only interstate railway station, which services the Overland. North Shore station was one of three Victorian stations the previous Labor state government chose to redevelop…