Thursday, 13 November 2025

 Michael GALEA (South-Eastern Metropolitan) (12:50): My question is for the Minister for Development Victoria and Precincts, and it concerns the Tiny Towns Fund, a very important project that applies to regional Victoria, as the Minister for Regional Development has outlined in her ministers statement. But also there are a number of communities on the outer fringe of Melbourne, in those interface areas just on the edge there, that are also eligible for this wonderful program of grants of between $5000 and $50,000 for projects that support and enhance the local community. It is, as the Minister for Regional Development has just said, an absolutely terrific fund, and I strongly encourage all of those towns which fall into my region – those being Upper Beaconsfield, Guys Hill and Harkaway in the Shire of Cardinia and the City of Casey – to get together and to apply for these funds and to show why the outer south-east is one of the best places in Victoria to live.