Adjournment- Public Housing & Retirement Village Sector

My matter is for the Minister for Housing and relates to the lack of any requirement for air conditioning in Victorian public housing. This is clearly an especially acute need in many parts of my electorate of Northern Victoria, which are typically some of the State’s hottest areas. The State Government is obliged, by law, to provide public housing tenants with facilities that are, quote, "fit for habitation". The action I seek is for consideration of improvements to these arrangements

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Speech- Out of Home Care Bill 2020

I will close by reiterating that we should never, ever lose sight of the fact that there is still an enormous amount of work to do that goes way, way beyond this legislation in the support and development of children, young people and families more generally. I would like to congratulate Ms Patten on her bill, and I would like to commend this bill to the house.

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