Inner North Community Foundation
Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan): My adjournment matter is for the Minister for Transport Infrastructure, and the action I seek is for the minister to meet with the Inner North Community Foundation to discuss the open space activation fund.
President, when times are tough, communities in the north come together.
The Inner North Community Foundation is an independent charity and grant maker for Melbourne’s north, covering the communities of Yarra, Darebin and Moreland, and I have mentioned them numerous times in this place.
Their fantastic work in...
Live music venues
Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) (22:30): My adjournment matter is for the Minister for Creative Industries, and the action I seek is for him to approve the Save our Scene proposal to rescue live music by providing a fund to support the relaunching of the industry when COVID-19 restrictions are lifted. The proposal is simple: it is to implement a live music support package, which would include a needs-based financial assistance program to support small- to medium-size enterprise music venues until they are able to trade sustainably and to put in place a clear and balanced road...
Victoria Police monitoring of racial profiling
Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) (23:34): My adjournment matter is for the Minister for Police and Emergency Services, and the action I am seeking is for her to instruct Victoria Police to immediately introduce a racial profile monitoring system.
We know that it has been three years since Victoria Police stated that they would introduce a monitoring system to check the level of racial profiling in police activities, but they have not. The research points to the fact that they are stopping people because of the colour of their skin, and we know...
Homelessness
Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) (18:28): My adjournment matter tonight is for the Minister for Housing, and I am seeking a meeting between him, me, Housing All Australians and Quest Apartments. With the growing number of families that we are seeing at risk of homelessness as a result of COVID, Housing All Australians, Quest Apartments and the Salvation Army have joined forces to provide temporary accommodation for those at risk of homelessness or who are experiencing it. It has been great seeing Quest Apartments providing the Salvation Army with temporary accommodation at a break-even rate—there is...
International students
Facial recognition technology
Eviction proceedings
Keeping women out of the justice system
Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) (18:02): My adjournment matter tonight is for the Minister for Corrections, and the action I seek is for him to fund the Keeping Women Out of the Justice System community of practice, and this is supported by the Victorian Legal Services Board.
I am sure that the minister is well aware of the work that this group of organisations does, and it is very good work, but let us not forget that between 2006 and 2016 the women’s prison population in Victoria increased by 75 per cent.
From the Ombudsman’s report in 2015 we found that the number of...
Epilepsy Foundation
Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) (20:50): My adjournment matter is for the Minister for Health, and the action is confirmation of funding for the Epilepsy Foundation. As we approach International Epilepsy Day on Monday, 10 February, I would really like to acknowledge the great work undertaken by the Epilepsy Foundation in supporting the 60 000 people living with epilepsy in Victoria.
I would also like to take a moment to acknowledge that, had it not been for the Epilepsy Foundation, I do not think medicinal cannabis would be where it is in Australia. Their work and their...