Tuesday, 17 June 2025

Northern Metropolitan Region

Anasina GRAY-BARBERIO (Northern Metropolitan) (14:02): (1627) My constituency question is to the Minister for Housing and Building. Minister, I bring to your attention the dire situation of one of my constituents, a former refugee from Ethiopia. Despite having sought safety on Australian shores, Mr Eliyas and his family are currently without a place to call home. Since their arrival in Australia this family has endured the profound instability of insecure housing, with his sons living in an overcrowded apartment with their elderly grandmother in Flemington, while his wife and daughters reside with a friend in a different property. Despite assessing him as a priority for long-term public housing, Homes Victoria referred this family onto only short-term crisis accommodation. Minister, they do deserve a safe, stable environment to heal and integrate, and I ask: when will you provide this desperate family with long-term, stable housing, allowing them to reunite and rebuild their lives with dignity and security?