Thursday, 11 September 2025

 Michaela SETTLE (Eureka) (10:47): I rise today as a very, very proud representative of my wonderful electorate of Eureka. I do not take well to people talking it down and implying that there is something terrible afoot, so I took objection this morning when the member for Warrandyte sought to paint Golden Plains as some sort of terrible crime spot. I just would like to point out a few facts. Golden Plains shire has one of the lowest rates of crime in Victoria. There has indeed been an increase, and I would point to several things in that increase. One, the figures that the member for Warrandyte was spouting equate to the population increase. We have got a growing area. But I would also point out the increase there has been in family violence. Those on the other side do not seem to want to talk about family violence, because everybody in this state knows that it is this government that has made real changes, beginning with the Royal Commission into Family Violence, which those on the other side decided to describe as a lawyer’s picnic. So while they are playing cheap political games and trying to bag out my electorate, let it be known that Riordan represents it too.