Wednesday, 29 November 2023

Kororoit electorate

Luba GRIGOROVITCH (Kororoit) (14:46): (459) My question is for the Minister for Skills and TAFE in the other place. Free TAFE has helped more than 153,000 Victorians embark on a new and rewarding career, saving Victorians more than $394 million in course fees. Unlike those opposite, who gutted the TAFE system and closed campuses, this government has a track record of delivering training opportunities for young people and expanding free TAFE. As we know, the Melton LGA is the fastest growing local government area in Victoria, with 58 babies being born per week on average. Can the minister provide an update on our commitment to delivering a new TAFE campus at Melton, as the residents out there and those around are very much looking forward to it.

Annabelle Cleeland: Speaker, I want to raise a point of order regarding overdue responses to questions on notice. I am still waiting on 35 overdue questions, all of which were raised last sitting to absolutely no avail, so again I ask the ministers for housing, environment, transport infrastructure, public transport, racing, emergency services, water, treaty and First Peoples, WorkSafe and the TAC, skills and TAFE, and the Attorney-General to please urgently respond. One in particular I would like to point to is question 256 directed to the Minister for Housing, which is now 221 days overdue. I will not list the questions out of respect for your time, and I will pass these to you, but I do encourage a response.

The SPEAKER: Pass the list to the clerks, thank you, member for Euroa.