Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) (18:01:41): My adjournment matter this evening is for the Minister for Priority Precincts, and it concerns Docklands Central Pier. The action I seek is for the minister to urgently provide support for the businesses and the employees at the pier. As many of you know, the pier was shut down urgently overnight on 28 August. That was two months ago. Development Victoria has refused to share any information with the tenants there. They actually met with them on the 27th and did not mention that there were any concerns, and then on the 28th they were closed down...

  Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) (20:08:44): My adjournment matter tonight is directed to the Minister for Education and concerns the group Body Safety Australia. The action I seek is for the minister to increase funding to the program so it can be extended to regional areas. Body Safety Australia is a social enterprise that protects children from sexual abuse. The group uses evidence-based strategies to provide age-appropriate sexual abuse prevention education to students, parents and teachers. It is worth noting some facts about child sexual abuse. One in five children will experience childhood sexual abuse. On average children need to disclose five times before they...

Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) (18:07:21): My adjournment matter today is for the Premier, and it concerns further allegations—even more allegations—of illegal behaviour at Crown Casino. These allegations have been made by former staff and whistleblowers within the regulator, the Victorian Commission for Gambling and Liquor Regulation. The action I seek is for the Premier to urgently establish an inquiry to investigate these allegations and the many others that have come before. On Monday I joined federal independent MP Andrew Wilkie in Canberra as we released video testimony from a former Crown employee detailing instances where he had witnessed activity such as the abuse of...

  Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) (18:03:18): My adjournment matter is for the Minister for Prevention of Family Violence. It could have been equally directed to the Minister for Crime Prevention or the Minister for Mental Health as it relates to the Jesuit Social Services Men’s Project and the response to recommendations from the family violence royal commission. The Jesuit Social Services’ Men’s Project has, not surprisingly to anyone, recognised and identified that we have a problem, and we have a problem with our men and boys. It is not all of them by any means, but nine out of 10 of our prisoners...

Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) (17:58:40): My adjournment matter is for the Minister for Planning. There is a 91-year-old signal box near Coburg train station—it is on Munro Street—and it is set to be demolished to make way for sky rail. It was built in 1928; in fact it replaced an earlier box that was built there in 1892—127 years ago. The Level Crossing Removal Project team has applied to Heritage Victoria to demolish the box, which has an interim protection order, and claims that building around the box would set the project back up to $10 million—a figure I just do not...

Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) (18:10:44): My adjournment matter today is for the Minister for Mental Health, and the action I seek is for the minister to immediately introduce a hydromorphone trial as part of the medically supervised injecting centre. Part of this is that I just want to read the following poem, which was written by a user of the MSIC who recently died. His grief-stricken father, who would rather not be named here today, wrote to me to thank me and colleagues across the Parliament for supporting the injecting room—and to support a hydromorphone trial.   There is a great place us...

 

Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) (18:30): My adjournment matter is for the Minister for Mental Health, Mr Foley, and the action I am seeking is for the minister to get in touch with the UK Parliament’s ‘minister for loneliness’ and consider developing a Victorian strategy for tackling loneliness. I have to say last week—in fact probably just the other day—I was in London and I met with the inaugural minister, Tracey Crouch, and spoke to her about how they had developed this strategy and what the basis was for it.

Loneliness really is a significant issue, not just...

  MS PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) (19:27:02): My adjournment matter tonight is for the Minister for Tourism, Sport and Major Events, and the action I am seeking is for the minister to investigate having a greater presence of Indigenous culture at Melbourne’s Tullamarine airport. Like many others, we travel in and out of that airport; we come through it hundreds of times. We know that literally millions of people visit our airport every year and hundreds of thousands visit every week. But I have noticed as I have been coming in that there really is not a mark of our Indigenous culture at our airport....

MS PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) (16:32:30): My adjournment matter today is for the Minister for Crime Prevention, and the action I am seeking is a meeting with the minister, me and the Emergency Services Telecommunications Authority. This is about a wonderful, innovative, new piece of technology that has recently been developed by Magistrate John O’Callaghan. He calls it the Triple 0 app; I would like to call it the O’Callaghan plan. Essentially it is a mobile phone app that when activated will allow video and audio from your phone to go straight to 000. In other words, virtually every Victorian will have a CCTV...

  MS PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) (18:10:36): My adjournment matter is for the Special Minister of State. As the minister is aware, the Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission Committee last year inquired into, considered and reported on the external oversight and investigation of police corruption and misconduct in Victoria. The extensive bipartisan report made 69 sweeping recommendations to improve the transparency, impartiality, effectiveness and efficiency of the system, determining that serious police misconduct should not be left to the police to investigate and that probes should instead be conducted by Victoria’s corruption watchdog, the Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission. In fact recommendation 2 says: …...