Wednesday, 27 November 2024


Motions

Government performance


Matthew GUY, Chris CREWTHER, Sam GROTH, Bridget VALLENCE, Richard RIORDAN, Cindy McLEISH, Tim BULL, Martin CAMERON, Kim O’KEEFFE, Annabelle CLEELAND, Kim WELLS, Michael O’BRIEN, Tim McCURDY, Roma BRITNELL, Jade BENHAM

Government performance

Matthew GUY (Bulleen) (09:57): I move, by leave:

That this house condemns the Premier and her corrupt Labor government for announcing her pet project in 2018, the Suburban Rail Loop, which was then promised for $50 billion but has now blown out by more than four times to $216 billion for the first two stages, according to the independent Parliamentary Budget Office.

Leave refused.

Members interjecting.

The SPEAKER: The member for Croydon can leave the chamber for half an hour.

Member for Croydon withdrew from chamber.

Chris CREWTHER (Mornington) (09:57): I move, by leave:

That this house condemns the Premier and Labor for their 10-year record of failure, with 61,000 Victorians on the public housing waiting list paying the price of Labor’s mismanagement.

Leave refused.

Sam GROTH (Nepean) (09:58): I move, by leave:

That this house condemns the Premier and Labor for their 10-year record of failure, including her failure to deliver the 2026 Commonwealth Games as Minister for Commonwealth Games Delivery, with Victorians paying the price through the $600 million she torched in the process.

Leave refused.

Bridget VALLENCE (Evelyn) (09:58): I move, by leave:

That this house condemns the Premier and Labor for their 10-year record of failure, with Victorians paying the price through $40 billion in budget blowouts on infrastructure projects years behind schedule, turbocharged by the Premier’s protection of CFMEU bosses with criminal bikie gang links.

Leave refused.

Richard RIORDAN (Polwarth) (09:59): I move, by leave:

That this house condemns the Premier and Labor for their 10-year record of failure, having introduced 29 ‍new property taxes that Victorians are now paying the price for through their higher property prices and a massive shortage of social and affordable homes in Victoria.

Leave refused.

Cindy McLEISH (Eildon) (09:59): I move, by leave:

That this house condemns the Premier and Labor for their 10-year record of failure, including completely neglecting our roads, and Victorians are paying the price, with road fatalities, sadly, up by 60 per cent on last year.

Leave refused.

Tim BULL (Gippsland East) (09:59): I move, by leave:

That this house condemns the Premier and Labor for their 10-year record of failure by closing the sustainable native timber industry that supported regional Victorian communities and employed thousands of hardworking Victorian families.

Leave refused.

Martin CAMERON (Morwell) (10:00): I move, by leave:

That this house condemns the Premier and Labor for the 10-year record of failure as the housing crisis deepens across regional Victoria, with the homelessness rate in the electorate of Morwell spiking by 85 per cent.

Leave refused.

Kim O’KEEFFE (Shepparton) (10:00): I move, by leave:

That this house condemns the Premier and Labor for the 10-year record of failure by risking the lives of regional Victorian road users by reducing regional road resurfacing and rehabilitation by 95 per cent in the previous year alone.

Leave refused.

Annabelle CLEELAND (Euroa) (10:01): I move, by leave:

That this house condemns the Premier and Labor for the 10-year record of failure, with every regional hospital lagging behind the statewide average for emergency department wait times.

Leave refused.

Kim WELLS (Rowville) (10:01): I move, by leave:

That this house condemns the Premier and Labor for their 10-year record of failure, including their attack on our freedoms, with Victoria enduring the world’s longest lockdowns, and Victorians are paying the price through long-term damage to mental health, education and the economy.

Leave refused.

Michael O’BRIEN (Malvern) (10:01): I move, by leave:

That this house condemns the Premier and the Attorney-General for their savage funding cuts to Court Services Victoria, which have led to the sacking of 34 Children’s Court conciliation conference unit members five days before Christmas in the ultimate act of Christmas Grinches.

Leave refused.

Michael O’BRIEN: I move, by leave:

That this house condemns the Premier and Labor for their 10-year record of failure, weakening bail laws in the middle of a youth crime crisis so Victorians are paying the price as youth crime spirals out of control.

Leave refused.

Tim McCURDY (Ovens Valley) (10:02): By leave, I move:

That this house condemns the Premier and Labor for their 10-year record of failure by removing regional Victoria’s right to appeal the Allan Labor government’s push for renewable energy projects at the expense of prime agricultural land.

Leave refused.

Tim McCURDY: By leave, I move:

That this house condemns the Premier and Labor for their 10-year record of failure, including their insufficient investment in regional roads. By 2023, 91 per cent of regional roads were deemed to be in poor or very poor condition, while the road maintenance budget has been slashed by 16 per cent over the past four years, jeopardising the safety of regional Victorians.

Leave refused.

Roma BRITNELL (South-West Coast) (10:03): I move, by leave:

That this house condemns the Minister for Children for the ongoing failures of Victoria’s child protection system while vulnerable children and young people are being sexually exploited and abused and are dying in tragically high numbers under her watch and the state’s care while she focuses instead on partisan politic attacks.

Leave refused.

Roma BRITNELL: I move, by leave:

That this house condemns the Minister for Children for the neglect of children and young people under her care, including failure to address the high numbers of children in residential care going missing and fleeing for their safety and the illicit drug use by vulnerable children in residential care and calls on her to focus on their protection rather than engaging in divisive political tactics.

Leave refused.

Roma BRITNELL: I move, by leave:

That this house condemns the Minister for Children for the crisis in the child protection system of this government’s making, for failing to remove children at risk from their environment, for the thousands of at-risk children waiting for a caseworker and calls on her to focus on protecting vulnerable children instead of concentrating on political attacks.

Leave refused.

Roma BRITNELL: I move, by leave:

That this house condemns the Minister for Children for the deliberate lack of transparency on the failures of the child protection system under the Allan Labor government and her cover-ups of those failures, including flouting parliamentary standing orders to avoid scrutiny and secretive behaviour to hide the degradation of the Victorian child protection system.

Leave refused.

Jade BENHAM (Mildura) (10:04): I move, by leave:

That this house condemns the Premier and Labor for their 10-year record of failure, including a plan to still push forward with health mergers by stealth, further reducing access to adequate health care for regional Victorians.

Leave refused.

Kim O’KEEFFE (Shepparton) (10:05): I move, by leave:

That this house condemns the Premier and Labor for their 10-year record of failure by starving regional Victorians of their fair share, with regional communities only receiving 13 per cent of the Allan Labor government’s infrastructure spend this financial year.

Leave refused.