Thursday, 31 October 2024
Adjournment
Severe weather preparedness
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Bills
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Building Legislation Amendment and Other Matters Bill 2024
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Committee
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- Sarah MANSFIELD
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- David DAVIS
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- Sarah MANSFIELD
- Harriet SHING
- Sarah MANSFIELD
- David LIMBRICK
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- David DAVIS
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- David DAVIS
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Roads and Road Safety Legislation Amendment Bill 2024
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Committee
- Katherine COPSEY
- Katherine COPSEY
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- Katherine COPSEY
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- Katherine COPSEY
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- Katherine COPSEY
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- Katherine COPSEY
- Harriet SHING
- David ETTERSHANK
- Evan MULHOLLAND
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- Evan MULHOLLAND
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- Evan MULHOLLAND
- David ETTERSHANK
- Evan MULHOLLAND
- Harriet SHING
- Evan MULHOLLAND
- Jeff BOURMAN
- David ETTERSHANK
- Katherine COPSEY
- Harriet SHING
- David ETTERSHANK
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- David ETTERSHANK
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- David ETTERSHANK
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- David ETTERSHANK
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- David ETTERSHANK
- Harriet SHING
- David ETTERSHANK
- Harriet SHING
- David ETTERSHANK
- Harriet SHING
- Katherine COPSEY
- Harriet SHING
- Evan MULHOLLAND
- Katherine COPSEY
- Harriet SHING
- Evan MULHOLLAND
- David ETTERSHANK
- Harriet SHING
- Evan MULHOLLAND
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Bills
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Building Legislation Amendment and Other Matters Bill 2024
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Committee
- David DAVIS
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- David DAVIS
- Sarah MANSFIELD
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- Sarah MANSFIELD
- Harriet SHING
- Sarah MANSFIELD
- Harriet SHING
- David DAVIS
- Harriet SHING
- David DAVIS
- Division
- Sarah MANSFIELD
- Harriet SHING
- Sarah MANSFIELD
- David LIMBRICK
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- David DAVIS
- Harriet SHING
- David DAVIS
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- Division
- David DAVIS
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- Harriet SHING
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Roads and Road Safety Legislation Amendment Bill 2024
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Committee
- Katherine COPSEY
- Katherine COPSEY
- Harriet SHING
- Katherine COPSEY
- Harriet SHING
- Katherine COPSEY
- Harriet SHING
- Katherine COPSEY
- Harriet SHING
- Katherine COPSEY
- Harriet SHING
- David ETTERSHANK
- Evan MULHOLLAND
- David ETTERSHANK
- Evan MULHOLLAND
- David ETTERSHANK
- Evan MULHOLLAND
- David ETTERSHANK
- Evan MULHOLLAND
- Harriet SHING
- Evan MULHOLLAND
- Jeff BOURMAN
- David ETTERSHANK
- Katherine COPSEY
- Harriet SHING
- David ETTERSHANK
- Harriet SHING
- David ETTERSHANK
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- David ETTERSHANK
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- David ETTERSHANK
- Harriet SHING
- David ETTERSHANK
- Harriet SHING
- David ETTERSHANK
- Harriet SHING
- David ETTERSHANK
- Harriet SHING
- Katherine COPSEY
- Harriet SHING
- Evan MULHOLLAND
- Katherine COPSEY
- Harriet SHING
- Evan MULHOLLAND
- David ETTERSHANK
- Harriet SHING
- Evan MULHOLLAND
- Harriet SHING
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Severe weather preparedness
Melina BATH (Eastern Victoria) (21:49): (1246) My adjournment matter is to the Minister for Education, and the action I seek is for the minister to improve the Department of Education’s coordination and delivery of information warnings in relation to extreme weather events, including but not limited to bushfire events.
My constituent Emerald CFA captain Klaus Brodeck has made it very clear that there is a significant inconsistency and lack of coordination by the education department and how it interacts with Emergency Management Victoria. The department of education follows its own fire rating and subsequent warnings, which do not necessarily align with EMV, so captain Brodeck has informed me that there are potentially two opposing directives.
Klaus informs me that there is major confusion in parents, and parents receive mixed messages and are quite often perplexed as to the best outcome for their child on school days. Take, for example, extreme fire days. The emergency management information via the VicEmergency app for a specific area states ‘Leave early. In the event of a fire you must act immediately, and that means leaving your property for a safer location.’ However, taking orders from the department, a school may inform parents to ‘Please send your student to school’ and ‘School is open.’
In addition, an Eastern Victoria Region state school principal who I spoke with today informed me that communication is often poor between the department and the school during any sort of extreme weather event. The centralised department decisions and directives made far away from the individual school can contrast very sharply with the understanding of the principal, who is best placed to read the dynamics, understand their region and understand the needs of the school in an evolving situation. There needs to be flexibility to have more autonomy for the principal and better coordination with local emergency services, including but not limited to the CFA. The role of the education department should be to mitigate risk and enable safe outcomes, not heighten risk. The heavily treed townships of Emerald, Monbulk, Gembrook, Kallista and Cockatoo, to name a few, all have one road in and one road out and are particularly at risk. For a government which spruiks continual improvement, there is much to improve on this issue.