Thursday, 2 April 2026

 Nicole WERNER (Warrandyte) (14:38): (1608) My constituency question is for the Minister for Environment. Last weekend Warrandyte celebrated and came together for another highly successful Warrandyte Festival. I was thrilled to see Linda Stammers, Michelle Evans and Katja Gutwein from Mange Management crowned as monarchs alongside Leeanne and Ken Keam from Riverflow recycling and Bernadette Walsh from Warrandyte Repair Cafe. But there is a problem: Mange Management volunteers are filling a gap this government refuses to address. They are treating mange, an entirely preventable fatal disease, across Victoria with passion and persistence, but they are doing it on a shoestring. My question is: what is the current annual funding provided specifically for mange management treatments in Warrandyte and Victoria? My constituents want to know why it falls so drastically short of what is actually needed to protect and defend the lives of wombats.