Wednesday, 27 November 2024

 Evan MULHOLLAND (Northern Metropolitan) (12:45): (1293) My constituency question is to the Minister for Police and is asking what the Labor government will do to ensure Melbourne’s traditions are protected from the protesting left and that law and order prevails on our streets. Minister, the Myer Christmas windows are a Melbourne icon and tradition. For generations Victorians have come to Bourke Street to see the windows and celebrate Christmas and our city’s rich culture. It is a shameful embarrassment that the threat of protest would cause this tradition to be cancelled in 2024. I have been contacted by my constituents in Cremorne and Burnley, and even in the surrounding suburbs of South Yarra and Windsor, with constituents concerned at Greens MPs’ silence on this issue and often the open support that many Greens members of Parliament have displayed for these kinds of protests. So I ask the minister what he will do about this. I have to say it is an absolute disgrace.