GEELONG: REGIONAL MIGRATION AGREEMENT

Parliament

Ms TIERNEY (Western Victoria)– My adjournment matter this evening is for the attention of the Premier, and it is in relation to the  state government’s  plan to seek  Geelong’s inclusion in a program that uses  temporary skilled migration to address labour  shortages. In November  2012 the then Premier,  Ted Baillieu, wrote to the then federal…

ASBESTOS: ERADICATION

Parliament

Ms  TIERNEY  (Western  Victoria)– In the past Australia was the highest  per capita user  of  asbestos in the  world.  Consequently we  have  the  unenviable reputation  of  having the highest  per  capita  incidence  of  asbestos-related disease and death in the world.  Areas  such  as  Victoria’s Latrobe Valley have paid and continue to pay a disproportionate toll…