Thursday, 30 November 2023
Adjournment
McKinnon Volley
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Commencement
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Business of the house
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Notices of motion
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Committees
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Integrity and Oversight Committee
- Appointment of a Person to Conduct the Independent Performance Audit of the Victorian Ombudsman
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Performance of the Victorian Integrity Agencies 2021/22
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Documents
- Children’s Court of Victoria
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Supreme Court of Victoria
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Business of the house
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Victorian Ombudsman
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Performance audit
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Middle East conflict
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Father Gerard Dowling
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Kaye Gauci
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Gippsland East homelessness
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Family violence
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Country Fire Authority Evelyn electorate brigades
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Police casualties
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Middle East conflict
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Woodworkers of the Southern Peninsula
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Rosebud Community Garden
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Nepean Shield
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Williamstown North Primary School
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Hobsons Bay Community Fund
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Inner West Art Fair
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Felicitations
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Ambulance response times
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Premier’s Spirit of Anzac Prize
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Kalkallo Youth Advisory Council
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Mount Eliza Secondary College
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Baxter rail extension
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Support Act
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Rowville electorate roads
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Remembrance Day
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Eltham electorate men’s sheds
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Housing affordability
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Middle East conflict
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Felicitations
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Narre Warren North electorate achievements
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Clyde Primary School
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Blind Bight Community Centre
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Bushfire preparedness
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Professor Arnold Dix
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Felicitations
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Felicity Jouvelet
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Felicitations
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Business of the house
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Victorian Ombudsman
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Performance audit
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Bills
- Constitution Amendment (SEC) Bill 2023
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State Electricity Commission Amendment Bill 2023
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Concurrent debate
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Justice Legislation Amendment (Police and Other Matters) Bill 2023
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Crimes Amendment (Non-fatal Strangulation) Bill 2023
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Council’s amendments
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Justice Legislation Amendment (Police and Other Matters) Bill 2023
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Second reading
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Business of the house
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Community safety
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Questions without notice and ministers statements
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State Electricity Commission
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Ambulance services
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Land tax
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Ministers statements: economy
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Water policy
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Ministers statements: State Electricity Commission
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Public housing
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Ministers statements: economy
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Rulings from the Chair
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Constituency questions
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Constituency questions
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South-West Coast electorate
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Broadmeadows electorate
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Mildura electorate
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Bass electorate
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Sandringham electorate
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Box Hill electorate
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Warrandyte electorate
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Preston electorate
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Prahran electorate
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Bellarine electorate
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Bills
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Justice Legislation Amendment (Police and Other Matters) Bill 2023
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Business of the house
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Adjournment
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Bills
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State Taxation Acts and Other Acts Amendment Bill 2023
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Council’s amendments
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Land (Revocation of Reservations) Bill 2023
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Biosecurity Legislation Amendment (Incident Response) Bill 2023
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Justice Legislation Amendment (Police and Other Matters) Bill 2023
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State Taxation Acts and Other Acts Amendment Bill 2023
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Business of the house
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Postponement
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Announcements
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Felicitations
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Advisor to the Speaker
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Felicitations
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Adjournment
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Community safety
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Wyndham law courts
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Swan Hill train service
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McKinnon Volley
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Payroll tax
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Housing
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Arts sector support
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Port Melbourne Primary School
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Native timber industry
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Reservoir Views Primary School
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Responses
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McKinnon Volley
Nick STAIKOS (Bentleigh) (18:16): (484) My adjournment matter tonight is for the attention of the Minister for Women and concerns changes to Volleyball Victoria’s by-laws, which have had a detrimental impact on McKinnon volleyball’s female players. The action I seek from the minister is that she makes representations to Volleyball Victoria about this matter. McKinnon volleyball club have seven women players who represented Victoria last season in the premier division. As the result of a change this year to Volleyball Victoria’s state league by-laws, McKinnon volleyball has been relegated due to not having a male team in the premier division. For example, the by-laws in 2021 stated:
In addition to the entry requirements contained in By-Law 5.2, entry into the Premier divisions is expressly subject to each Metropolitan Melbourne based Club:
entering exactly one (1) team in each Premier division …
In 2023 it was changed to the following:
entering exactly one (1) team per gender in each Premier division …
While I do not want to tell anyone how to run their league, it does strike me as unfair that a group of women are unable to compete at the level which they have achieved due to the absence of a men’s team. It also strikes me as a retrograde step given the great strides forward in women’s sport in recent years, which I know Victoria’s gender equality strategy has been part of. I therefore ask that the Minister for Women make representations to Volleyball Victoria on this matter.