Tuesday, 28 October 2025

 Georgie CROZIER (Southern Metropolitan) (12:46): My question is to the Minister for Consumer Affairs. My constituent who lives in St Kilda has raised concerns with his local MP on numerous occasions about the rights and responsibilities of owners corporations in relation to short-term rentals like Airbnb. My constituent and other owners in his building have had to endure appalling behaviour of visitors in short-stay rentals, including drug dealing, drug abuse, violence and very extreme antisocial behaviour. Now they are facing a very onerous and expensive process to enforce their own resolution to ban short-stay rentals through VCAT, which requires another special resolution of a 75 per cent vote of the owners corporation. My constituent quite rightly points out that residents have a right to protect their homes, their privacy and their safety. Minister, will you meet with my constituent and his fellow residents to understand their concerns about the regulation of short-term rentals?