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Legislative Council Environment and Planning Committee

Inquiry into the 2022 Flood Event in Victoria

Interim report tabled | The Committee's Interim Report was tabled on 18 April 2024 in Echuca.

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Details about public hearings completed for this inquiry can be found in the tabs below.

Previous public hearings

Transcripts and responses to Questions on Notice will be published below once processed by the Committee.

Friday 10 May

10:30 AM
Melbourne Water Nerina Di Lorenzo, Managing Director Craig Dixon, Executive General Manager, Service and Asset Lifecycle Tim Wood, General Manager, Service Programs

12:30 PM
Melbourne Water Review Panel Hon. G Tony Pagone AM KC, Chair Tim Peggie, Panel Member and Director, Planning, Ethos Urban Mark Babister, Panel Member and Managing Director, WMA Water
Wednesday 6 December 2023

9:00 AM
Hon. Harriet Shing MLC, Minister for Water
Transcript Responses 1 to QON Responses 2 to QON Responses 3 to QON Responses 4 to QON Submission Submission Attachment

10:40 AM
Hon. G Tony Pagone AM KC, Chair, Maribyrnong River Flood Review
Transcript

12:30 PM
Hon. Jaclyn Symes MLC, Minister for Emergency Services
Transcript Responses to QON Submission Submission Attachment

2:10 PM
ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes, Monash University Professor Julie Arblaster, Deputy Director Dr Kimberley Reid, Research Fellow, School of Earth Atmosphere and Environment, Faculty of Science
Transcript Submission

3:30 PM
GHD Chris French, General Manager - Victoria Amanda Gilfoyle, Business Group Leader - Water Resources
Transcript Responses to QON

4:30 PM
Phoenix Australia, Centre for Posttraumatic Mental Health Jane Nursey, Head, Clinical Services
Transcript
Tuesday 21 November 2023

Davui Room, 55 Saint Andrews Place, East Melbourne, 3002

10:00 AM
Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action Sam Quigley, Acting Chief Fire Officer, Forest Fire Management Vic Dougal Purcell, Executive Director, Agriculture Sector Development and Services, Agriculture Victoria Sarah-Jane McCormack, Executive Director, Agriculture Policy and Programs, Agriculture Victoria Carolyn Jackson, Deputy Secretary, Regions, Environment, Climate Action and First Peoples Sara Harbidge, Executive Director, Biodiversity Daniel McLaughlin, Executive Director, Conservation and Planning, Parks Victoria
Transcript Responses to QON Responses to QON - Attachment 1 Responses to QON - Attachment 2 Responses to QON - Attachment 3 Submission Submission Attachment

12:30 PM
Lance King AFSM, Former Manager, Emergency Management, Latrobe City Council Ken Skinner, Traralgon Community Recovery Committee
Transcript KS Submission LK Submission

2:00 PM
Bureau of Meteorology Dr Peter Stone, Chief Customer Officer Dr Chantal Donnelly, General Manager Decision Support Services
Transcript Responses to QON Submission
Monday 20 November 2023

10:30 AM
Victorian Caravan Parks Association Inc. (VicParks) David Pratt, President Scott Parker, Chief Executive Officer
Transcript Submission

11:30 AM
Insurance Council of Australia Kylie Macfarlane, Chief Operating Officer
Transcript Responses to QON Submission

1:30 PM
Australian Institute of Health and Safety Andrew Heinrichs, Policy and Advocacy Committee Chair
Transcript Responses to QON Submission

2:30 PM
Department of Transport and Planning William Tieppo, Deputy Secretary, Network Design and Integration Anthony Judd, Executive Director, Flood Recovery Jimmy O'Connell, Executive Director, Network Change
Transcript Responses to QON Submission Submission Attachment
Wednesday 25 October 2023

9:00 AM
DEECA Water & Catchments Andrew Fennessy, Deputy Secretary, Water & Catchments Michael Jensz, Executive Director, Statewide Infrastructure and Rural Strategy Jesse Rose, Executive Director, Water Resource Strategy
Transcript Responses to QON Responses to QON - Attachment 1 Submission Submission Attachment

11:15 AM
Tony Pearce, Inspector-General for Emergency Management
Transcript Responses to QON Responses to QON - Attachment

1:00 PM
North Central CMA Brad Drust, Chief Executive Officer Rohan Hogan, Executive Manager, Strategy and Partnerships Camille White, Floorplain Manager Goulburn Broken CMA Chris Cumming, Chief Executive Officer Guy Tierney, Statutory Planning and Floodplain Manager Joel Leister, Manager Floodplain Implementation
Transcript

3:15 PM
Goulburn Murray Water Charmaine Quick, Managing Director Andrew Shields, River Operations Manager Peter Clydesdale, Manager Diversions, Groundwater & Streams
Responses to QON Responses to QON - Attachment 1 Responses to QON - Attachment 2 Responses to QON - Attachment 3 Responses to QON - Attachment 4 Responses to QON - Attachment 5 Transcript
Wednesday 18 October 2023

7:00 PM
Open mic session Selin Lanzafame Geoff Kyval Vula Kerr Tony Goddard Greg Corcoran Frances Weidener Sarah Marshall David Keenan Michael Wickham Stephanie Munroe Sharon Bathman Naomi Clark Johanne Appleby Isaac Hermann Ian Hundley Maree Maher Roger Byrne Michael Bagnall Nicole McKay
Transcript Supplementary attachment
Thursday 12 October 2023

Davui Hearing Room (G1 & G2), 55 St Andrews Place, East Melbourne

9:00 AM
Department of Justice and Community Safety Kate Fitzgerald, Deputy Secretary Emergency Management Chris Stephenson, Deputy Commissioner, Emergency Management Victoria Tim Wiebusch, Chief Officer Operations, VICSES Mariela Diaz, Chief Executive, Emergency Recovery Victoria
Transcript Responses to QON Responses to QON - Attachment 1 Victorian Government Submission Victorian Government Submission Cover Letter

11:30 AM
Victorian Planning Authority (VPA) Stuart Moseley, Chief Executive Officer Bonnie Mather, Director, Planning Services
Transcript Responses to QON Responses to QON - Attachment 1 Responses to QON - Attachment 2 VPA - Submission

1:00 PM
Rivervue Retirement Village Residents Colin Waters Stanislaw Korkliniewski
Transcript CW - Submission CW - Supplementary Submission Responses to QON SK - Submission SK - Supplementary Submission

1:45 PM
Maribyrnong Community Recovery Committee Madeleine Serle, Chair
Transcript Submission

2:30 PM
Nick Wimbush
Transcript

3:45 PM
Volunteering Victoria Thu-Trang Tran, Chief Executive Officer
Transcript Responses to QON Submission

4:30 PM
Rivervue Retirement Village, Tigcorp Pty. Ltd. Darren Lewis, General Manager, Finance
Transcript Responses to QON Responses to QON - Attachment #1 Responses to QON - Attachment #3 Responses to QON - Attachment #4 Responses to QON - Attachment #6 Submission
Wednesday 11 October 2023

Davui Hearing Room (G1 & G2), 55 St Andrews Place, East Melbourne

9:00 AM
Department of Transport and Planning Andrew McKeegan, Deputy Secretary Planning and Land Services Stuart Menzies, Director State Planning Services Phil Burn, Acting Executive Director, Planning and Building Reform
Transcript Responses to QON Victorian Government Submission Victorian Government Submission Cover Letter

11:00 AM
Maribyrnong City Council Sarah Carter, Mayor Celia Haddock, Chief Executive Officer Laura-Jo Mellan, Director Planning and Environment Kirsten Tanner, Coordinator Emergency Management Moonee Valley City Council Pierce Tyson, Mayor Helen Sui, Chief Executive Officer Brett Walters, Director Strategy and Planning Ben McManus, Manager EPMO & Accountability City of Melbourne Evan Counsel, General Manager Strategy, Planning and Climate Change Dean Robertson, Director City Safety, Security and Amenity
Transcript City of Melbourne - submission City of Melbourne Responses to QON MCC - submission MCC Responses to QON MCC Responses to QON - Attachment 1 MCC Responses to QON - Attachment 2 MVCC Responses to QON MVCC Responses to QON - Attachment 1 MVCC Responses to QON - Attachment 2 MVCC Responses to QON - Attachment 3 MVCC Responses to QON - Attachment 4 MVCC Responses to QON - Attachment 5

1:00 PM
Ron Sutherland Geoff Crapper
Transcript GC - submission GC - submission - attachment 1 Response to QON RS - submission

1:45 PM
Victoria SES Volunteers Association (VicSESVA) Faye Bendrups OAM, President
Transcript submission

2:30 PM
Victoria Racing Club Limited Steve Rosich, Chief Executive Officer James Reid, Executive General Manager, Flemington Operations
Transcript Response to QON - Annexure 1 Response to QON - Annexure 2 Responses to QON submission

3:30 PM
Melbourne Water Nerina Di Lorenzo, Managing Director Craig Dixon, Executive General Manager, Service and Asset Lifecycle Tim Wood, General Manager, Service Programs John Woodland, Head of Waterways and Catchment Services, South East
Transcript Responses to QON Responses to QON - Additional Attach 1 Responses to QON - Additional Attach 2 Responses to QON - Additional Attach 3 Responses to QON - Attachment Q01 Responses to QON - Attachment Q08 Responses to QON - Attachment Q10 Responses to QON - Attachment1 Q04 Responses to QON - Attachment2 Q04 Responses to QON - Attachment3 Q04 Victorian Government Submission Victorian Government Submission Cover Letter
Tuesday 10 October 2023

Meeting Room G6, 55 Saint Andrews Place, East Melbourne, 3002

2:30 PM
Buloke Shire Council Alan Getley, Mayor Wayne O'Toole, Chief Executive Officer Pyrenees Shire Council Kathryn Doroshenko-Pempel, Emergency Management Coordinator Jane Bowker, Flood Recovery Coordinator Moira Shire Council Graeme Emonson, Administrator Kate Goldsmith, Emergency Management Coordinator Mildura Rural City Council Liam Wood, Mayor
Transcript Buloke - Submission Moira Shire Council - Responses to QON Moira Shire Council - Responses to QON - Attachment 1 Pyreneees Shire Council - Response to QON Pyrenees - Submission
Thursday 14 September 2023

Recovery Hub | 4 Guild Street, Seymour

9:30 AM
Fiona Stevens, Mayor, Mitchell Shire Council Brett Luxford, Chief Executive Officer, Mitchell Shire Council Kellie Massouras, Flood Recovery Manager, Mitchell Shire Council Laura Binks, Mayor, Strathbogie Shire Council Amanda Tingay, Director People and Governance, Strathbogie Shire Council Rachael Frampton, Acting Director, Community and Planning, Strathbogie Shire Council John Walsh, Mayor, Murrindindi Shire Council Andrew Paxton, Acting Chief Executive Officer, Murrindindi Shire Council Peter Bain, Manager, Sustainability & Assets, Murrindindi Shire Council
Transcript Mitchell - Submission Murrindindi - Submission Strathbogie - Submission

11:00 AM
Jan Beer, Upper Goulburn River Catchment Association Derek Meggitt, Director, Goulburn River Trout Pty Ltd
Transcript GRT - Addendum to Transcript GRT - Submission UGRCA - Response to QON UGRCA - Submission

12:30 PM
Community recovery committee
Neil Beer, Co-Chair
Transcript

1:30 PM
Go Seymour: Business and Tourism group
Stuart Locke, President Shelley Hamilton, Committee member Graeme Dove, Committee member
Transcript Responses to QON

2:30 PM
Victorian Farmers Federation
Emma Germano, President Charles Everist, Policy Manager Richard Stecher, Managing Director, Stetcher Agricultural Services Nick Stecher Andrew Perry
Transcript Response to QON Submission

3:30 PM
Ken Hall, Chairperson, Kings Park Committee of Management Pam Beerens, Secretary, Seymour Agricultural and Pastoral Society
Transcript
Wednesday 13 September 2023

Sir Ian McLennan Centre, Echuca Road, Mooroopna

10:00 AM
Greater Shepparton City Council
Shane Sali, Mayor Peter Harriott, Chief Executive Officer
Addendum to Transcript Transcript Responses to QON Submission

11:30 AM
Leigh Findlay, Board Chair, Committee for Greater Shepparton Jane Macey, Board Deputy Chair, Committee for Greater Shepparton Linda Nieuwenhuizen, Chief Executive Officer, Committee for Greater Shepparton Amy Robinson, Executive Officer, Greater Shepparton Lighthouse Foundation Jenny Wilson, Chief Executive Officer, Murray Dairy Taylor Hall, General Manager, Valley Pack
Transcript Committee for Greater Shepparton - Submission Committee for Greater Shepparton - Submission attachment Murray Dairy - Response to QON Murray Dairy - Response to QON - Fact Sheet Attachment

12:30 PM
Murray Darling Association
Mark Lamb, Chief Executive Officer Cr Geoff Dobson, Board Member
Transcript Response to QON Submission

2:00 PM
Undera Flood Group
Judith Clements Alastair Chessells Bart van Ruiswyk
Transcript Chessells Submission Undera Flood Group Submission Undera Flood Group Submission attachment 1 Undera Flood Group Submission attachment 2

2:45 PM
Mooroopna Education & Activity Centre
Jan Phillips, Manager Jacqui Kiss, Administration
Transcript

3:30 PM
Maria Brown-Shepherd, President, Ethnic Council of Shepparton and District Sam Atukorala, Manager, Ethnic Council of Shepparton and District Kate Steenvoorden, Founding Board Member, Neighbourhood Collective Australia and Regional Victorians of Colour
Transcript Response to QON Submission

4:15 PM
Shepparton Search and Rescue
Nacole Stanfield, President
Transcript
Thursday 24 August 2023

Echuca
Mercure Hotel, 465 High Street, Echuca, 3564

10:00 AM
Panel discussion
Cr Rob Amos, Mayor, Campaspe Shire Council Pauline Gordon, Chief Executive Officer, Campaspe Shire Council Shannon Maynard, Director Emergency Management, Campaspe Shire Council Cr Charlie Gillingham, Mayor, Gannawarra Shire Council Geoff Rollinson, Chief Executive Officer, Gannawarra Shire Council Cr Dan Straub, Mayor, Loddon Shire Council Lincoln Fitzgerald, Chief Executive Officer, Loddon Shire Council Ann-Marie Roberts, City of Greater Bendigo, Northern Victorian Emergency Management Cluster Luke Ryan, Mount Alexander Shire, Northern Victorian Emergency Management Cluster Cr Rob Amos, Mayor, Murray River Group of Councils
Transcript Response to QON

1:00 PM
Echuca Village Country Fire Authority
Darrell Phillips, Captain of CFA
Transcript

1:45 PM
Kate Burke, Think Agri Tom Acocks, Dairy farmer
Transcript

2:45 PM
Yorta Yorta Nation Aboriginal Corporation
Jay Whittaker, Engagement and Coordination Manager
Transcript Response to QON

3:30 PM
Community living and respite services
Leah Taaffe, Chief Executive Officer Lauren Davy, Director of Operations
Transcript
Wednesday 23 August 2023

Rochester
Rochester Shire Hall, 45 MacKay Street, Rochester, 3561

9:00 AM
Community Recovery Committee
Leigh Wilson, Chair Elizabeth Trewick, Principal, St Joseph's School Tracie Kyne, Lake Eppalock Working Group, Rochester Business Network
Transcript

10:30 AM
Flood Mitigation Sub Committee, Community Recovery Committee
Sharon Williams, Lake Eppalock Working Group David Christie, Christie Dairy Farm Tracie Kyne, Lake Eppalock Working Group, Rochester Business Network
Transcript

11:15 AM
Rochester Community House
Amanda Logie, Manager
Transcript Response to Question on Notice

12:30 PM
Rochester and Elmore District Health Service (REDHS)
Karen Laing, Chief Executive Officer Christopher White, Board Chair
Transcript Response to Question on Notice

1:15 PM
The Salvation Army Rochester, RSL Rochester
Cameron David Lovering
Transcript

2:00 PM
Restdown Retirement Village Incorporated
Ross Turner, Secretary Committee of Management Tracie Kyne, Lake Eppalock Working Group, Rochester Business Network
Transcript

3:00 PM
Open Mic
Paul Poort Judi McKail Wayne Park John Oakley Shelley Nichol Tuesday Browell Maree Traill Royden Webb Rodney George Harrison Brooke Ryan Peter G Conway Elaine Breen Kevin Long Cassandra Evans Veronica Groat Catriona Jenkins
Transcript