Questions Without Notice – Privatisation

Does the Labor Premier honestly believe that private asset managers, superannuation funds and investment funds…are actually better at running public services than the government?

2024 State Budget Reply

I rise to speak on behalf of the Greens to the 2024 state budget, a budget that is coming for the second year in a row at a time when so many people are looking to their governments to do all they can to tackle the housing crisis, to tackle the cost-of-living crisis, to tackle the fact that […]

Public Accounts and Estimates Committee Report on the 2023–24 Budget Estimates

I rise to speak to the Public Accounts and Estimates Committee’s Report on the 2023–24 Budget Estimates. The report quite rightly makes a number of references to inflation and just the significant impacts that high inflation is having on individuals, households and the broader Victorian economy: that the state’s inflation is being driven by price […]

Adjournment- Cost of Living Relief

Sam Hibbins to ask the Treasurer —  (317) My adjournment matter is for the Treasurer, and the action I seek is for the Treasurer to take bold action to help people who are struggling with the skyrocketing cost of living. It is clear from the many responses to our cost-of-living survey that so many people […]

Budget Reply

Reply to the Victorian Budget 2023, on behalf of the Victorian Greens.

Appropriation (2023-2024) Bill 2023 Second Reading

Given the hour I suspect I will have to make some more substantive remarks when the take-note motion comes around, but in the time I do have I will say that this is a budget that was handed down at an incredibly difficult time for so many Victorians struggling with the skyrocketing cost of living, […]