Questions Without Notice – Privatisation
Premier, I ask: can you inform the house which other government agencies, assets or services are next in line to be privatised under your pro-privatisation Labor government?
Matters of Public Importance – Privatisation
The Greens have proposed this MPI, matter of public importance, debate calling on the Victorian Labor government to end its privatisation agenda because the Victorian Labor government has got a problem. It has got a problem with privatisation, and it is time, I reckon, for an intervention. The Greens believe that public services should be […]
Questions Without Notice – Income Support
will the government commit to advocating for raising the rate of income support at the next national cabinet?
Questions Without Notice – Income Support
why isn’t the Victorian government publicly advocating for the rate of income support to be raised above the poverty line in today’s federal budget?
Adjournment – Supermarket Prices
My adjournment is for the Minister for Planning, and the action I seek is for the minister to investigate anti-competitive behaviour by the supermarket duopoly Woolworths and Coles, including land banking tactics, and whether state planning laws are restricting competition in the supermarket industry, which ultimately results in higher prices for consumers at the check-out. […]
Regulatory Legislation Amendment (Reform) Bill 2023
I rise to speak on behalf of the Victorian Greens to the Regulatory Legislation Amendment (Reform) Bill 2023. As has been canvassed by previous speakers, this is an omnibus bill that seeks to reform regulatory legislation across 14 acts and 10 ministerial portfolios. According to the second-reading speech, the purpose of the bill is to […]
Cost of Living – Adjournment
My adjournment matter is for the Assistant Treasurer as the minister responsible for the Essential Services Commission, and the action I seek is for the minister to regulate supermarkets to stop them from price gouging. Supermarkets have been putting up the price of food and essentials, making the cost of living worse. Victorians are struggling […]
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 […]
Question on Notice- Land Tax Laws
Sam Hibbins to ask the Treasurer — Is the Government considering amending land tax laws so that commercial heritage buildings with significant income pay a fair rate of land tax. Response from the Treasurer In 2019, the Government amended the Valuation of Land Act 1960 resulting in heritage-registered properties being valued on a ‘highest and best use’ […]
Editorial – Food Price Controls
Exactly fifty years ago the Australian government held a different referendum. That time, in 1973, the Whitlam government held a referendum giving the Federal Parliament the power to control prices in order to tackle runaway inflation that was driving up the cost-of-living. Up until then, price controls had been used exclusively by the states following […]
