Tuesday, 26 August 2025

Community safety

Georgie CROZIER (Southern Metropolitan) (13:25): Unfortunately, Victoria has the unenviable reputation of being the debt capital, the taxation capital of Australia, given the staggering debt amount that Victoria is racking up and the taxation impost that is on households, families and businesses that is just increasing. But we are also known as the protest capital and crime capital of the country. This is all under Labor. Labor has allowed our state to decline into such a state that we have lawlessness that is at a level no-one, even a few years ago, would ever have expected. The serious nature of the violence that is in our streets and the out-of-control crime that is occurring every single day are just unacceptable. I think that every Victorian is really concerned about the inability of this government to address this problem. This is lawlessness, as I said, that we have never experienced, and it is not in any one area, it is right across our city and right across our state. It does not matter where they live, people are living in fear, and they deserve to feel safe in their homes – at the very least they deserve that – but they do not. The home invasions, the carjackings, the unlawful activity, the attacks on retail outlets and those workers are affecting everybody. The government has failed Victorians yet again.