Constituency question- Dermatology services during covid-19 border restrictions

My question is to the ‘Minister for the Coordination of Health and Human Services: COVID-19’. Many people in my electorate are experiencing difficulty in accessing treatment from dermatologists as a result of the COVID-related border shutdowns.

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Adjournment- Adolescent family violence

The minimisation of adolescent violence is tremendously significant in numerous respects, not least in substantially reducing current and future financial burdens on Victoria’s justice and health systems, as well as the State’s economy more broadly.  By definition, it also leads to improved outcomes in mental and physical wellbeing at both an individual and family level.

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Constituency question- Bushfire management

My question is to the Minister for the Environment. It follows the recent release of VAGO’s Reducing Bushfire Risks audit. For my electorate of Northern Victoria, much of that audit’s content is highly relevant and topical after last summer’s disastrous bushfires and given that another fire season is now imminent.

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Speech- Justice Legislation Amendment (Drug Court and Other Matters) Bill 2020

I can confirm that Mr Grimley and I will be supporting this Bill. It has a number of different elements to it. Particularly importantly for us, it includes the provision of some new avenues of recourse in relation to a group of previously-prohibited forms of legal action relating to child abuse.

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Speech- Safe Patient Care (Nurse to Patient and Midwife to Patient Ratios) Amendment Bill 2020

I will begin by stating that Derryn Hinch’s Justice Party supports this legislation. As I said in my speech in February 2019 on the forerunner Bill to this one, I commend the Government on its establishment, in law, of the nurse-to-patient ratios that are again at the heart of this new Bill.  I also congratulate the Government for what I regard as its clear willingness, in this area, to introduce incremental changes to the Safe Patient Care Act in order to continue to enhance how it actually works in practice.

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Constituency question- Ouyen Intermodal

My question is to the Minister for Transport Infrastructure. I understand the Minister has not met with Ouyen Inc in the nearly three years since 2018. And, last week, the Victorian Government said it is now only prepared to devote another $44 million to the Murray Basin Rail Project notwithstanding that hundreds of millions of dollars are needed even for partial completion.

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