Speech: Livestock Management Amendment (Animal Activism) Bill 2021

I rise to speak on the Livestock Management Amendment (Animal Activism) Bill 2021, and I do so because this is a very important bill for many reasons. Agriculture is an incredibly important part of my electorate of South-West Coast, and when the incident occurred in Gippsland on the Gippy Goat farm it was the culmination, […]

Members Statement – Mission to Seafarers Portland

Mission to Seafarers Portland supports foreign seafarers when they dock at the Port of Portland. These international seafarers play a critical role in getting imports into Australia as well as shipping our goods overseas. Throughout the Covid pandemic, they have been unable to leave their ships – even to visit the Mission to Seafarers’ store […]

Members Statement – South West Coast SES

Last week I met with the Victoria SES CEO Stephen Griffin and volunteers Stephen Bakker and Emily McCullagh for a briefing on the fantastic work that the SES does in the south-west region. In the period between 1 July 2019 and 30 June 2021 volunteers in the south-west region responded to 6033 call-outs—20 per cent […]

Second Reading – Sex work Decriminilisation Bill 2021

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I rise today to lead the debate for the Liberal-Nationals on the Sex Work Decriminalisation Bill 2021. This is a very important bill with wide ranging implications, and as one might expect, there have been a wide variety of opinions on the bill—people are either on one side of the fence or the other—but I […]

Adjournment Debate – COVID recovery procedures.

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My adjournment is to the Minister for Health, and the action I seek on behalf of my constituent is for a clear and defined set of advice for patients who have recovered from COVID-19 to be published like in other states. Minister, my constituent has recently recovered from the virus and has raised with me […]