Simpson Primary Schoolis one of 16 schools across the state set to receive between $300,000 and $500,000 for modifications and upgrades under the Better Schools Today program. Gayle Tierney, Member for Western Victoria said the school would receive $450,000 to internally refurbish general purpose classrooms and the library to consolidate the school into existing spaces.…
Local member for Western Victoria, Gayle Tierney, today announced applications for the State Government’s new Graffiti Clean-up Community Grants Program were now open. Ms Tierney urged Colac, Apollo Bay and all surrounding areas to take advantage of the program to assist with the fight against graffiti in the local community. Ms Tierney said the non-recurrent…
Students at government schools in Colac will be able to enjoy free fresh fruit on Fridays next year thanks to an $11 million Brumby Government ‘Go for your life’ initiative. Minister for Education, Bronwyn Pike, said the program would encourage local students to adopt healthy eating practices and avoid unhealthy snacks. “Children need fresh fruit…
One Hundred and fifty students in the area of Colac have embraced a challenge set by Premier John Brumby to read more books. The avid bookworms join 116,251 Victorian Prep to Year 9 students across the state who successfully completed the 2007 Premier’s Reading Challenge. Between them they read an astonishing 3.4 million books and…
Students at government schools in Mortlake will be able to enjoy free fresh fruit on Fridays next year thanks to an $11 million Brumby Government ‘Go for your life’ initiative. Minister for Education, Bronwyn Pike, said the program would encourage local students to adopt healthy eating practices and avoid unhealthy snacks. “Children need fresh fruit…
Nine students in the area of Inverleigh have embraced a challenge set by Premier John Brumby to read more books. The avid bookworms join 116,251 Victorian Prep to Year 9 students across the state who successfully completed the 2007 Premier’s Reading Challenge. Between them they read an astonishing 3.4 million books and set another Challenge…
Local member for Western Victoria, Gayle Tierney, today announced applications for the State Government’s new Graffiti Clean-up Community Grants Program were now open. Ms Tierney urged the Inverleigh community to take advantage of the program to assist with the fight against graffiti in the local community. Ms Tierney said the non-recurrent grants of between $5,000…
Students at government schools in Inverleigh will be able to enjoy free fresh fruit on Fridays next year thanks to an $11 million Brumby Government ‘Go for your life’ initiative. Minister for Education, Bronwyn Pike, said the program would encourage local students to adopt healthy eating practices and avoid unhealthy snacks. “Children need fresh fruit…
Derrinalum Collage P-12 is one of 16 schools across the state set to receive between $300,000 and $500,000 for modifications and upgrades under the Better Schools Today program. Gayle Tierney, Member for Western Victoria said the school would receive $500,000 for refurbishments to three secondary purpose classrooms, refurbish secondary toilets and remodel entrance foyers. “This…
Students at government schools in Portland will be able to enjoy free fresh fruit on Fridays next year thanks to an $11 million Brumby Government ‘Go for your life’ initiative. Minister for Education, Bronwyn Pike, said the program would encourage local students to adopt healthy eating practices and avoid unhealthy snacks. “Children need fresh fruit…
Local member for Western Victoria, Gayle Tierney, today announced applications for the State Government’s new Graffiti Clean-up Community Grants Program were now open. Ms Tierney urged Cobden to take advantage of the program to assist with the fight against graffiti in the local community. Ms Tierney said the non-recurrent grants of between $5,000 and $25,000…
Students at government schools in Cobden will be able to enjoy free fresh fruit on Fridays next year thanks to an $11 million Brumby Government ‘Go for your life’ initiative. Minister for Education, Bronwyn Pike, said the program would encourage local students to adopt healthy eating practices and avoid unhealthy snacks. “Children need fresh fruit…
Local member for Western Victoria, Gayle Tierney, today announced applications for the State Government’s new Graffiti Clean-up Community Grants Program were now open. Ms Tierney urged Camperdown to take advantage of the program to assist with the fight against graffiti in the local community. Ms Tierney said the non-recurrent grants of between $5,000 and $25,000…
Students at government schools in Camperdown will be able to enjoy free fresh fruit on Fridays next year thanks to an $11 million Brumby Government ‘Go for your life’ initiative. Minister for Education, Bronwyn Pike, said the program would encourage local students to adopt healthy eating practices and avoid unhealthy snacks. “Children need fresh fruit…
Twenty-three students in the area of Camperdown have embraced a challenge set by Premier John Brumby to read more books. The avid bookworms join 116,251 Victorian Prep to Year 9 students across the state who successfully completed the 2007 Premier’s Reading Challenge. Between them they read an astonishing 3.4 million books and set another Challenge…
Member for Western Victoria, Gayle Tierney today congratulated Holiday Great Ocean Road for being honoured at the Melbourne Airport 2007 Victorian Tourism Awards last Monday night. Holiday Great Ocean Road received the City of Melbourne Award for specialised Tourism Services. Holiday Great Ocean Road is a specialised property management and booking service for the Great…
Member for Western Victoria, Gayle Tierney today congratulated The Flagstaff Hill Precinct and the Fun4Kids Festival from Warrnambool for being honoured at the Melbourne Airport 2007 Victorian Tourism Awards last Monday night. The Flagstaff Hill Precinct received the award of the Herald Sun Award for Tourist Attractions. The Fun4Kids Festival received the V/Line Award for…
The Member for Western Victoria, Gayle Tierney has congratulated the Portland Special School on receiving an Encouragement Award in the Primary School Beginner Category as part of the Rubbish Free Lunch Challenge. “It is great to see that our local schools are winning the battle to eliminate lunch time rubbish and food scraps from their…
The old Port Fairy Rail Goods Shed could soon be transformed into a hive of community activity following an $8,000 funding announcement by Gayle Tierney MLC, Member for Western Victoria. Ms Tierney said the Moyne Shire Council would receive a Victorian Community Support Grant to investigate the potential for the Shed to be used as…
The Victorian Government’s Regional Infrastructure Development Fund (RIDF) has leveraged $1 billion in new investment in country Victoria, the Member for Western Victoria, Gayle Tierney said today. “Establishing the RIDF was one of the first acts of this Labor Government because we realised the importance of rebuilding infrastructure in regional and rural areas after many…
The Victorian Government’s Regional Infrastructure Development Fund (RIDF) has leveraged $1 billion in new investment in country Victoria, the Member for Western Victoria, Gayle Tierney said today. “Establishing the RIDF was one of the first acts of this Labor Government because we realised the importance of rebuilding infrastructure in regional and rural areas after many…
I raise a matter for the Minister for Education in the other place, Ms Bronwyn Pike. It is a well known fact that the no. 1 priority for this government is education. One only need look at the 2007-08 budget to have this demonstrated. We promised to rebuild or modernise every school, invest in new…
I raise a matter for the Deputy Premier and Minister for Industrial Relations in the other place. On 26 August the Deputy Premier announced the inaugural meeting of Victoria’s first Working Families Council. The council will work with industry and community groups to champion the issues of working families in their efforts to strike the…
I rise to speak in opposition to Mr Kavanagh’s private member’s bill. In my opening remarks I wish to make a couple of statements. One is the fact that 77 per cent of Victorians now live in areas that have fluoride. It has been interesting to talk to people over the last couple of weeks. …
Ms TIERNEY (Western Victoria)— Could the Treasurer please inform the house of any progress made in the final funding for the Wimmera-Mallee pipeline? Mr LENDERS (Treasurer)— I thank Ms Tierney for her question and her interest in the Wimmera-Mallee pipeline, which I have spoken about before in this house. I have spoken about it being…
Last week a number of examples were raised in the media over the alleged misuse of the federal government’s rural partnerships program. The colloquial term is ‘pork-barrelling’, but this morning I want to raise a blatant and serious misrepresentation. The current federal member for Wannon and Speaker of the House of Representatives, David Hawker, has…
I raise a matter for the Minister for Education in the other place. Shortly I will have the pleasure of presenting the Portland Special School with an award for completing the Brumby government’s rubbish-free Friday initiative. It is great to see that our local schools are winning the battle to eliminate lunchtime rubbish and food…
I rise to speak in support of the Graffiti Prevention Bill. As we have heard, there are three main objectives to the bill — that is, to reduce the financial and social costs connected to graffiti; to promote a strong deterrent to the perpetrators and promote accountability, and to reduce the incidence of graffiti.…
The Minister for Public Transport, Lynne Kosky, today announced the completion of $750,000 upgrades to three level crossings at Swan Marsh and Pirron Yallock, significantly improving safety for roads users in the Colac Otway Shire. Ms Kosky said the level crossings at Swan Marsh and Settlement Roads, Pirron Yallock and Swan Marsh-Stoneyford Road, Swan Marsh…
Gayle Tierney MLC, Member for Western Victoria, today announced that the Brumby Government will provide a grant of $3,000 to the Camperdown Community House to help them recruit and train more volunteers. Ms. Tierney said the Camperdown Community House was keen to attract new volunteers to help keep the Community House at the heart of…
I am also pleased to rise and make a contribution to the debate on the Crimes Amendment (Rape) Bill 2007. As we have heard from other speakers, this is the third stage in a raft of changes arising from the Law Reform Commission’s Sexual Offences — Final Report on law and procedures. As we have …