RAIL: MARSHALL STATION

Parliament

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

Parliament

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

Parliament

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…