Thursday, 30 October 2025

 Tim BULL (Gippsland East) (14:51): (1361) My question is to the Minister for Emergency Services. The information I am seeking is whether there are plans to change the criteria for access to the emergency services levy exemption. I have got one CFA captain who owns a block of land. It is the only property he owns, and he is saving to buy a home, so he is currently renting. Because that block of land, which is the only property he owns, is not his primary place of residence, he is not allowed to claim the exemption. This young fella is the backbone of his local brigade. We need the minister to change the criteria so that he and the many others who would be in his situation around the state are not disadvantaged and can actually claim the emergency services levy exemption against the one property that they own. In its present form it is very, very unfair on these young CFA volunteers.