AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SECURITY: BIG CATS — INVESTIGATION

To ask the Minister  for Higher  Education and  Skills (for  the Minister for  Agriculture  and Food  Security):  In  relation  to  the  Baillieu government’s funding to investigate the existence of ‘big cats’ in Victoria: (1) How  many departmental staff will  be involved in  the Baillieu government’s investigation. (2) What will be the total cost of this…

AGEING: MINISTERIAL VISITS — CITY OF BALLARAT

To  ask  the  Minister  for Ageing:  On which  dates between  2 December  2010 and  14 April 2011 did the minister visit any locality within the city of Ballarat, and on each occasion: (1) Who did the minister meet with. (2) Did the minister make any commitment of public funds; and if  so, for each  commitment…

EMPLOYMENT: REGIONAL AND RURAL VICTORIA

My adjournment matter this evening is for the Minister for Employment  and Industrial Relations, Richard Dalla-Riva, and it is in  relation to recent  Australian  Bureau of  Statistics  job and  unemployment statistics  for rural and  regional Victoria. I think  everyone would agree that the  August  and September job figures represented a bad set of numbers. Members…

RAIL: NORTH SHORE STATION

In February this year the Baillieu government made the decision to abandon the previous Labor government’s plan to upgrade the North  Shore  railway station in  Geelong. This decision was  met with criticism from the Geelong  community, because  as each  and every  person who uses or has family who uses this station knows, it is in…