Thursday, 16 October 2025

 Evan MULHOLLAND (Northern Metropolitan) (12:51): (1888) My constituency question is to the Minister for Police, and it concerns the shocking increase in machete and knife crime in the northern suburbs. My community in Greenvale were horrified at the recent machete melee at Greenvale Secondary College, which was plunged into lockdown with two students injured. Our students deserve to be safe on campus and focus on their education, but under this government we have seen an explosion in knife-related crime and a weak response from this government. That is why the Liberals and Nationals have proposed commonsense measures to keep Victorians safe, including Jack’s law, to give police and PSOs the tools they need and the technology they need to get knives off the street. This government expects those offenders that came to Greenvale Secondary to voluntarily go up the road to Craigieburn police station to put them in a machete bin. We will give police the powers they need. I ask the minister to urgently commit to following our lead and giving Victoria Police the powers they need to keep Victorians safe.