Block grants to redress scheme laggards
The state government should deny funding and grants to organisations that fail to sign up for national redress scheme
National Redress Scheme
I am calling on the Victorian Government to deny funding and grants to organisations that fail to sign up to the National Redress Scheme for institutional sexual abuse survivors.
Speech – Sentencing Amendment (Emergency Worker Harm) Bill 2020
Derryn Hinch’s Justice Party has, for some time, been pushing for the type of action that is reflected in this Bill. There is an unmistakable and urgent need for changes to this area of law that better safeguarded emergency workers from assaults, and more effectively prevented the perpetrators of such assaults from avoiding minimum sentences.
Adjournment- Illegal tobacco
My matter, for the Health Minister, is about the general lack of success and enthusiasm of Victorian health officials to curtail illegal tobacco retailing.
Speech – Justice Legislation Miscellaneous Amendments Bill 2019
The Derryn Hinch's Justice Party did not support this bill, as evidence and argument left us concerned about the practical impacts of the establishment of a new regime under which lawyers can charge contingency fees.
Question without Notice – Health spending priorities
My question is to the Health Minister, Ms Mikakos. Billions of dollars of unscheduled expenditure is being spent in the health portfolio, can she now tell us how COVID-19 expenditure pressures have altered the Government’s overall future spending priorities (and savings priorities) in the Health portfolio for the remainder of the two-and-a-half years of this term of Parliament?
Constituency Question – Exemptions for retirement villages
My question is to the Minister for Consumer Affairs. Constituents within a Wangaratta retirement village are asking for reassurance that there will not be changes to the application of the exit entitlements regulation for departing residents.
Members Statement – Exceptional Woman in Victorian Resources
Congratulations to Sue Mills from Bendigo East, who has been named 2020’s exceptional woman in Victorian resources.
Notice of Motion- introduction of mandatory sentencing for child sex offenders
I call on the Victorian Government to clarify whether it agrees with the Federal Labor Party’s decision to support the introduction of mandatory minimum sentences for certain child sex offences.
