Adjournments

  Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) (17:48): (2126) My adjournment matter is for the Minister for Health and relates to schedule 9 permits. I have recently become aware of a consultation document published by the Department of Health in August this year proposing to restrict permits for schedule 9 poisons for human therapeutic use under the…

  Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) (18:05): (2122) My adjournment matter is for the Minister for Police, and the action I seek relates to opioid overdose. As the minister is very aware, there was a recent sizeable seizure of fentanyl coming in via a Melbourne port. As we all know, the potential to dramatically heighten the…

  Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) (18:20): (2100) My adjournment matter is for the Minister for Health and the action I seek pertains to pharmacotherapy. Methadone and buprenorphine are used in the treatment of opioid dependence, and on International Overdose Awareness Day I think it is really important to note their life-saving and life-changing potential. The…

  Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) (18:14): (2075) My adjournment matter is for the Assistant Treasurer, and the action I seek relates to government procurement. Recently I visited Etiko clothing in Brunswick on Sydney Road. It is part of our office’s ‘F*** fast fashion’ campaign. The campaign is highlighting the unsustainable textile waste in Australia, and…

  Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) (2067) Incorporated pursuant to order of Council of 7 September 2021: My adjournment matter is for the Minister for Health and relates to chronic pain. One in five Victorians are affected by chronic pain. Nationally over 3 million Australians live with chronic pain, which results in more than $73 billion in…

  Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) (20:55): (2041) My adjournment matter relates to eating disorders and the lack of an eating disorder strategy. We know that an eating disorder is a serious mental illness and we know that it is characterised by a whole range of issues, whether that is behaviours and attitudes to food and…

  MS PATTEN — To ask the Minister for Employment (for the Minister for Roads and Road Safety): Incorporated pursuant to order of Council of 7 September 2021: My adjournment matter is for the minister for road safety and relates to medicinal cannabis. Last week the Premier posted on social media that medicinal cannabis ‘helps the…

  Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) (17:53): (1968) My adjournment matter is for the Minister for Health and relates to drug checking. It was only a short while ago that I asked a question without notice of the minister with respect to the coronial inquest into the tragic death of Mr S, who died on 28…

  Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) (18:01): (1945) My adjournment matter is for the Minister for Health, and the action I am seeking relates to Victoria’s Alcohol and Other Drugs Workforce Strategy. This strategy sets the direction for workforce development and planning for Victoria’s AOD sector, but it is from 2018 to 2022. So it has…

  Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) (17:34): (1903) My adjournment matter is for the Minister for Health, and the action I am seeking relates to endometriosis. Endometriosis is an under-recognised disease that affects the wellbeing of so many. It is an inflammatory condition that most commonly strikes the reproductive organs, but it is also frequently found…

  Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) (17:45): (1875) My adjournment matter is for Minister Stitt, and the action I am seeking relates to outright discriminatory provisions built into the Worker Screening Act 2020 related to NDIS worker screening. Under the Worker Screening Act the secretary must refuse to give NDIS clearance on an NDIS category B…

  Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) (20:10): (1827) My adjournment matter is for the Minister for Health, and the action I seek relates to endometriosis. March is Endometriosis Awareness Month, so it is a great time to amplify the push for adequate care for women suffering from this under-recognised disease that undermines the wellbeing of so…

  Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) (19:44): (1790) My adjournment matter is for the Treasurer. The action I am seeking is funding for a hydromorphone trial as part of the upcoming May budget. Hydromorphone is an intervention that breaks the nexus between heroin addiction and crime and refocuses chaotic lifestyles away from trying to score drugs…

  Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) (17:50): My adjournment matter is for the Minister for Education, and the action I am seeking today is for the minister to establish a menstrual champions pilot program in schools. It is really quite a straightforward idea. Nominated teachers are appointed menstrual champions for students to visit when they are…

  Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) (1719) Incorporated pursuant to order of Council of 7 September 2021: My adjournment matter is for the Treasurer, and the action I seek is that he fund women’s health programs delivered by the Royal Women’s Hospital for a further three years. These programs are funded on a short-term basis and…

  Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) (22:30): (1691) My adjournment matter is for the Minister for Health, and the action I seek is for the minister to widen the scope of the 2021–25 Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health plan to include surgical abortion and treatment for menstrual issues, endometriosis and menopause. I am really fortunate to…

  Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) (18:08): My adjournment matter is for the Treasurer. The action I am seeking may not be popular. I am asking that he forgo some land tax. As chair of the homelessness inquiry, I was really privileged to hear so many community organisations talk about initiatives for solving homelessness. As we…

  Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) (1618) Incorporated pursuant to order of Council of 7 September: My adjournment matter is for the Minister for Agriculture and relates to hemp. The National Farmers Federation has set a target of $100 billion farmgate production by 2030. The current production level is just above $60 billion. The director of CSIRO agriculture…

  Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) (21:24): (1582) My adjournment matter is for the Minister for Roads and Road Safety and relates to medicinal cannabis and driving. The medicinal cannabis driving task force presented a report, and from that I would hope that Victoria is edging slowly, slowly closer towards reform in this area. That reform…

  Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) (21:24): (1546) My adjournment matter is around pandemic stress leave, and it is directed to the Premier. The press conference that the Premier held on Sunday, 3 October, put nurses front and centre. Their stories were harrowing, and it sent a strong message about getting vaccinated. Our nurses, our allied…

  Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) (1517) Incorporated pursuant to order of Council of 7 September: My adjournment matter is for the Minister for Health, Mr Foley, and the action I seek relates to the wellbeing of our healthcare workers. Our entire healthcare workforce is feeling the stress of working during a pandemic. The Victorian government acknowledged…

  Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) (1503) Incorporated pursuant to order of Council of 7 September: I am directing my adjournment to the Minister for Government Services, Danny Pearson, and it is a matter raised by Russell Huntingdon, president of the University of the Third Age’s Melbourne City campus, and on behalf of the more than…

  Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) (17:56): (1419) My adjournment matter is for the Minister for Housing, and that seems very appropriate seeing that it is Homelessness Week. It concerns the really successful Geelong Project. I can see Ms Lovell here in the chamber, and Ms Maxwell. We met the Geelong Project during our inquiry into…

  Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) (18:20): I think that was a great segue, Mrs McArthur, to my adjournment matter, which probably digs a little bit deeper— Mrs McArthur: Always here to help. Ms PATTEN: I appreciate that, Mrs McArthur. It is to the Minister for Creative Industries, and the action I am seeking is support packages…

  Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) (17:35): My adjournment matter is for the Minister for Transport Infrastructure, and the action I seek is for the minister to publish or, if she has not already done so, develop a transport plan. It is a requirement of the Transport Integration Act 2010 for the minister to prepare such…

  Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) (18:02): My adjournment matter is for the Minister for Corrections, and the action I am seeking is for the minister to work with the Minister for Housing or work with the department to solve the problem of women in prison who are on parole and cannot get out of prison…

  Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) (17:24): My adjournment matter is for the Minister for Health, and the action I seek is for the minister through the department secretary to amend the Drugs, Poisons and Controlled Substances Regulations 2017 to ensure nurse practitioners, nurses and midwives are able to prescribe medical abortion medication and allow specially…

  Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) (19:16): My adjournment matter is for the Minister for Health, and the action I am seeking is for the government to establish a centre of expertise in specialised endometriosis and chronic pelvic pain diagnosis, treatment and management. March is Endometriosis Awareness Month, and it is estimated that one in nine…

  Ms Patten: My adjournment matter this evening is for the Minister for Employment, Minister Pulford, and the action I seek is for her to meet with the Youth Affairs Council Victoria, YACVic, to discuss their youth employment recovery plan and the establishment of a Victorian youth employment commissioner. The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically affected…

  Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) My adjournment matter is for the Treasurer, Tim Pallas, and the action I seek is for the government to fund a further four community legal hubs for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Victoria. In last year’s budget the government delivered $2.176 million for the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service to…

  Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) (18:02): My adjournment matter this evening is for Minister Tierney, and the action I seek—well, it is almost an invitation really, Minister—is for her to accompany me and my Reason coalition colleague, Ali Cupper, the member for Mildura, to SuniTAFE Smart Farm to see how the proposed $10 million investment in…

  Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) My adjournment matter is for the Treasurer. The action I seek is for the government to immediately invest in toilet and rubbish bins at Edinburgh Gardens. Edinburgh Gardens has become very popular as my constituents look to flock to have COVID-safe picnics with their friends. ‘COVID safe’ has meant outside….

Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) (22:48): The adjournment matter that I raise is to the Minister for Corrections, and the action I seek is for the minister to commit to extending the pilot program for the Dame Phyllis Frost Centre disability and complex needs team. An audit of Victoria’s prisons in 2011 found that 33 per cent—a…

Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) (21:06): My adjournment matter is for the Minister for Police and Emergency Services, and the action I seek is for the government to immediately rescind the COVID fines for people under the age of 18. We have implemented one of the strictest policing responses to COVID in the world, but unfortunately…

Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) (16:23): My adjournment matter is for the Minister for Police and Emergency Services, and the action I seek relates to online offending. Right now in our society we are experiencing an exponential increase in vile threats, abuse and harassment commissioned online and via social media. We heard last week during the…

Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) (18:35): My adjournment matter is for the Treasurer, and the action I am seeking, along with probably many of my colleagues here but also the community, is for the Victorian government to increase IBAC’s funding in the next budget, and the increase needs to be by at least $10 million a year….

Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) (18:15): My adjournment matter is for the Minister for Health, Mr Foley—and congratulations on his new appointment. The action I seek from the minister is to amend the maternal and child health program standards to remove the requirement for nurses—this is, child health nurses and adolescent health nurses—to be midwives. While I…

Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) My adjournment matter tonight is for the Minister for Mental Health, Mr Foley, and the action I seek is for him to urgently review the amount of rehabilitation beds available to Victorians and commit to ensuring that more beds are brought into the system as soon as is possible. Victoria’s specialist alcohol…

Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan): My adjournment matter is for the Minister for Consumer Affairs, Gaming and Liquor Regulation, and the action I seek is that the government review the Retail Leases Act 2003 in consultation with small business tenants and their landlords to find equitable ways for businesses affected by COVID-19 to terminate or renegotiate…

Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan): My adjournment matter tonight is directed to the Attorney-General and regards justices of the peace and bail justices. The services JPs provide on a volunteer basis are incredibly important to the community, and we must ensure these services continue to be available during this time. From what I understand, the Royal…

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…

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…

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…

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…

  Ms Patten: My adjournment matter tonight is for the Minister for Higher Education in this place and the action I seek is for the Minster to investigate the state government support options for international students. The international education sector has warned that Australia is putting at risk one of its largest industries if it…

Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) (19:16): My adjournment matter tonight is for the Minister for Police and Emergency Services, and it also relates to the use of facial recognition technology and biometric identity systems, but the action I am seeking is for the minister to conduct an audit of Victoria Police to ascertain which officers have…

  Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) (18:33): My adjournment matter tonight is for the Minister for Consumer Affairs, Gaming and Liquor Regulation, and the action I seek is for the minister to halt all eviction proceedings in Victoria during the state of emergency. As more and more of public life in Victoria shuts down—schools, events, bars,…

  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…

  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…

  Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) (18:13:33): My adjournment matter is for the Special Minister for State, and the action I am seeking is an independent judicial inquiry. As the minister would be aware, the IBAC Committee last year inquired into, considered and reported on—and I believe that the minister who is here today, Minister Symes,…

  Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) (18:29:59): My adjournment matter tonight is for the Minister for Planning, Minister Wynne, and the action I seek is for his office to urgently move to protect the heritage buildings and trees at risk due to the level crossing removals in my area. In August I called on the Minister…

  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…

  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…

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…

  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…

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…

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…

  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…

  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…

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…

  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…

  MS PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) (17:11:03): My adjournment matter is for the Attorney-General, and the action I seek relates to the barriers to claims made by mothers whose children were forcibly adopted. As many in this chamber would know, on 25 October 2012 the Victorian Parliament issued a formal apology to those harmed by past…

MS PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) (16:45:36): My matter this evening is important but probably not as interesting as Mr Finn’s. It is for the Minister for Planning, and the action I seek is an expansion of the Inclusionary Housing pilot program that has been going on, as well as an increase in the social housing percentages….

MS PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) (18:39:22): My adjournment matter today is for the Minister for Mental Health, Mr Foley, and it is about loneliness. I congratulate the government on the community consultation in putting together the terms of reference for the Royal Commission into Mental Health. I have certainly seen some of the submissions from organisations…

Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) (18:36): Before I start, I would just like to wish everyone a merry Christmas. I hope you all have a lovely break and come back with renewed energy for this place— Members interjecting. Ms PATTEN: I know. It is day one, but somehow— Members interjecting. Ms PATTEN: Yes. My adjournment matter…

MS PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) (17:42:04) — My adjournment matter tonight is for the Special Minister of State, and it relates to the Victorian Electoral Commission’s (VEC) direct enrolment of students onto the electoral roll. The VEC had been doing automatic enrolments since 2010, and it was actually a great service. They sent out a 17th birthday card to…

MS PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) (17:24:13) — My adjournment matter today is for the Minister for Health, and the action I seek is a review of the requirements under the Assisted Reproductive Treatment Act 2008. Under this act all patients that are accessing assisted reproductive programs, or IVF, are required to undertake a Victorian criminal police record check…

MS PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) (00:10:23) — My adjournment matter is for the Attorney-General, and the action I seek relates to missing persons and creating an official missing persons status. In raising this I would like to congratulate the Missing Persons Advocacy Network, which is completely unfunded yet provides amazing support for families in need and families that…

MS PATTEN — I would like to remind everyone about the amazing photo exhibition that is on at Parliament all this week. The other day accomplished photojournalist and organ recipient Andrew Chapman took us on a tour of his impactful exhibition, capturing the last moments of an organ donor’s life and a recipient receiving a life-saving…

MS PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) (10:30:17) — In a recent adjournment I reinforced the critical need for governments to stop perceiving religious organisations as above the law when it comes to child sexual abuse. I have been working toward this change for more than a decade and have urged the church to put victims’ needs ahead of its…

MS PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) (21:14:49) — My adjournment matter is for the Attorney-General, and the action I seek relates to clergy mandatory reporting. On 11 July 2018, this government released its response to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, indicating: The Victorian government will give further consideration to the key recommendation that mandatory reporting…

MS PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) (15:14:18) — My adjournment matter today is for Minister for Consumer Affairs, Gaming and Liquor Regulation. The action I seek relates to the electronic gambling figures that were released today by the Victorian Commission for Gambling and Liquor Regulation. Last year saw the biggest increase in spending on Victorian poker machines for the…

Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) (18:42:37) — My adjournment matter is for the Attorney-General. The action I seek relates to the unintended gendered impacts of the government’s proposed mandatory sentencing reforms, and I note that they are yet to come before this house. I have received representations from Fitzroy Legal Service, the Centre for Excellence in…

Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) (18:07:41) — My adjournment matter is for the Minister for the Prevention of Family Violence. The action I seek is that she assist in funding this very innovative program called HaiR-3Rs, which is a program that helps reduce domestic violence in Victoria. This program is run for hairdressers, and the 3Rs stand for recognise,…

Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) (17:08:37) — My adjournment matter is for the Attorney-General. The action I am seeking relates to the mandatory reporting of child sexual abuse cases. I think it is quite apposite to the conversations we have been having this week about the redress scheme et cetera. Yesterday I received a letter from the Anglican Diocese of…

Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) (20:00) — My adjournment matter is really for a number of ministers but I will direct it to the Minister for Local Government, and it is in regard to funding for improvements to All Nations Park in Northcote, which I know the minister is familiar with, and I know my colleague…

Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) (17:43:55) — My adjournment matter is for the Special Minister of State. The action I seek relates to the petitions that we receive in this house. As you know, in 2016 we agreed to e-petitions. This had been a long process; I think it started in 2005 when this issue was first discussed. As…

Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) (22:04:33) — My adjournment matter is for the Minister for Training and Skills. The action I am seeking is for some government support to help build a community workspace at the Merrilands Community Centre in Darebin, where they are doing a lot with very little. I was there last week. I met Italian pensioners….

Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) (19:52:14) — My adjournment matter is for the Minister for Mental Health, Minister Foley, and the action I seek is an immediate end to the ban on nicotine for use in personal vaporisers. Currently we are the only country in the world that has such a ban. According to the Victorian government’s own website, nicotine…

Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) (17:35:45) — My adjournment matter is for the Attorney-General. We saw in a Herald Sun front page this week an estimate that the trade in illegal cannabis in Victoria has now topped $8 billion a year. While we are spending millions of dollars on policing this, the criminals are making billions in profits. I did some back-of-the-envelope…

Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) (23:03:23) — My adjournment matter is for the Minister for Public Transport, and the action I seek is in relation to the elevation of the Upfield train line through Melbourne’s inner north, which is my region. As the minister is aware, the Upfield line has a very high concentration of level crossings. In fact…

Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) (23:03:23) — My adjournment matter is for the Minister for Public Transport, and the action I seek is in relation to the elevation of the Upfield train line through Melbourne’s inner north, which is my region. As the minister is aware, the Upfield line has a very high concentration of level crossings. In fact…

Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) (20:31:19) — My adjournment matter is for the Minister for Youth Affairs, Ms Mikakos. The action I am seeking is in relation to the Youth Affairs Council Victoria (YACVic) Young Thinker in Residence program. This program was an initiative of YACVic. They employed two young people aged between 18 and 21 to spend two days…

Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) (11:42:45) — My adjournment matter is for the Minister for Energy, Environment and Climate Change, but I think this could also be relevant to the Minister for Health. The action I am seeking is in relation to Victoria’s ‘do not disconnect’ register. In the heatwave of 2009, 361 mainly elderly residents died of heat stress…

MS PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) — My adjournment matter is for the Minister for Families and Children, and the action I am seeking is in relation to Victoria’s leaving care age for young people on custody or guardianship orders. Under current Victorian policy about 1800 young people have their custody or guardianship orders expire each year when they turn…

Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) — My adjournment matter is for the Minister for Consumer Affairs, Gaming and Liquor Regulation. The action I am seeking is in relation to Victoria’s liquor licensing and responsible service of alcohol training. Last week I had the pleasure of meeting a really impressive woman, Nikki Keating, who founded Respect Is the Rule,…

Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) — My adjournment matter is for the Minister for Public Transport. I am seeking action in relation to Northern Metropolitan Region’s crowded South Morang train line. While we passed a motion yesterday calling on the government to increase express services on the South Morang train line, my understanding is that that may not occur…

Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) — My adjournment matter is for the Minister for Housing, Disability and Ageing. The action I am seeking is in relation to Victoria’s ageing population and the lack of an ageing strategy. Last week the minister announced the 35th Victorian Seniors Festival, which celebrates the contribution of the more than 1 million Victorians over the age…

Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) — My adjournment matter is for the Minister for Police. The action I am seeking is in relation to a matter that was raised by Wayne Gatt of the Police Association Victoria with respect to the costs of telephone triangulation, also known as pinging. Triangulation is a valuable police investigative tool that can be…

Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) — My adjournment matter is for the Minister for Public Transport, and it is in consideration of the ongoing discussion about an airport link. I noticed in the print media in June that the federal government said that they might ‘go it alone’ on a Melbourne Airport rail link, and this appears to be…

Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) — My adjournment matter is for the Minister for Police. I am seeking an explanation or some information from the minister on the conduct of police in responding to some recent overdoses at the Inflation Nightclub. I was very sad to hear of the overdoses on 10 June. I am always appreciative of the police…

Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) — My adjournment matter today is directed to the Minister for Police. The action I am seeking from the minister is to review the evidence base underpinning roadside testing and to look at the policy and practice that is used to develop that roadside testing. This is as a result of looking at…

Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) — My adjournment matter this evening is for the Minister for Health, Jill Hennessy, and the action I am seeking from her is that she consider ways that we can enable and encourage employers to allow employees to use a sick day to have a health day. This was raised by…

Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) — My adjournment is for the Minister for Mental Health, and the action I am seeking is for better triaging of mental health patients in emergency departments. In 2014 the former government established a psychiatric assessment and planning unit — a PAPU, as it is known — at the Maroondah Hospital to improve patient access and…

Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) — My adjournment matter is for the Minister for Agriculture. The matter I would like her to consider is strategies to allow a small amount of bait fish — pilchards and whitebait — to continue to be caught in Port Phillip Bay to supply the ever-growing number of recreational fishers in the bay. As…

Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) — My adjournment matter is for the Minister for Public Transport, and the action I seek from the minister is to appoint an expert panel to assess the viability of Victoria’s public transport privatisation model. It is kind of interesting that we are calling it privatisation, yet we seem to spend billions…

Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) — My adjournment matter is somewhat urgent. It is for the Premier, and it comes from a young member of my electorate. He is very concerned about the safe travels of Santa across Victoria in late December. The weather is clearly becoming more unpredictable because of the effects of climate change. As…

Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) — My question is for the minister representing the Minister for Health, Minister Mikakos. Publicly funded abortion services are deteriorating across the state, causing women to travel long distances for private care that costs hundreds of dollars. Leading women’s health researchers are urging the government to make abortion services mandatory at some…

Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) — My adjournment matter is directed to the Minister for Agriculture, Ms Pulford. I am requesting that the minister look into taking action against Riverside Meats abattoir after seeing the shocking acts of animal cruelty at that facility. More than 170 hours of footage were provided to the regulator, PrimeSafe. I saw a few…

Ms Patten (Northern Metropolitan) — My adjournment matter is about an urgent call for action from the Minister for Women in helping to save a unique part of Victorian women’s history. Heritage Victoria notified me and Sophie Paterson, whose grandfather raised the funds to build the Princess Mary Club, last week that they had tragically…

Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) — My adjournment matter tonight is directed to the Minister for Roads and Road Safety, the Honourable Luke Donnellan. I am asking the minister to look into measures to improve pedestrian safety on Nicholson Street outside the Coburg IGA. This section of Nicholson Street outside the shopping centre is a really dangerous…

Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) — My adjournment matter today is for the Minister for Mental Health, Mr Foley. The request that I am making and the action I am calling for is that the government immediately introduce a substance testing pilot scheme. In the last week we saw another tragedy unfold with the death of Riki Stephens from…

Ms Patten (Northern Metropolitan): My adjournment matter is for the Minister for Sport. I would like to ask him to get behind the BootsOff campaign to help fund the AFL Women’s league. Whilst I was celebrating yesterday’s historic AFL Women’s draft I was just a little bit disappointed with what then came out about it. Despite…

Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) — My adjournment matter today is for the Minister for Public Transport, Ms Allan. It is in regard to the compensation package being offered to taxi owners and taxi plate owners, and the action I am seeking is a review of the compensation package and of how they are going to calculate it and…

Ms Patten (Northern Metropolitan) : My adjournment matter is for the Special Minister of State, Gavin Jennings, on the matter of national Wattle Day. As we know, tomorrow is the first day of spring — not a moment too soon — and I hope it may bring some joy even into this house. Wattle Day was conceived as a way…

Ms Patten (Northern Metropolitan) — My adjournment matter is for the Treasurer. Last Saturday I attended the birthday celebration of the Melbourne Period Project. This is a wonderful organisation that grew in Northern Metropolitan Region, my electorate, and it now exists the whole way along the east coast of Australia. It supports women experiencing homelessness by providing sanitary…

Ms Patten (Northern Metropolitan) — My adjournment matter is for the Minister for Families and Children, Minister Mikakos. On 31 May I visited the Melbourne Youth Justice Centre in Parkville, and I was very lucky to be shown around by the director of secure services, Ian Lanyon, and to meet his incredible staff. Yet again I was at a…

Ms Patten (Northern Metropolitan) — My adjournment matter is for the Honourable Steve Herbert in his role as Minister for Corrections, and the action I am seeking is regarding post-correctional housing. Last Friday I toured the Metropolitan Remand Centre and the Dame Phyllis Frost Centre. Both of these maximum security facilities are run by incredible, hardworking individuals, and…

Ms  Patten (Northern Metropolitan) — My adjournment matter is for the Honourable Steve Herbert in his role as Minister for Training and Skills. Body safety education aims to teach children about physiology, body autonomy, consent and communication in a safe, inclusive and age-appropriate way. It adds to and complements our respectful relationships program. I think it is an important…

Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) — My adjournment matter is for the Minister for Consumer Affairs, Gaming and Liquor Regulation. I am calling on the minister to investigate ways to modernise our approach to sex work in Victoria. On Sunday I had the great pleasure of attending the 10th birthday of Madame Brussels. Obviously Madame Brussels would have been a lot older…

Ms Patten (Northern Metropolitan) — My adjournment matter is for the Minister for Agriculture, Ms Pulford. The action I call for from the minister is to examine the feasibility of legislation to create mandatory reporting of cases of suspected animal abuse — — The PRESIDENT — Order! Under the standing orders Ms Patten is not…

My adjournment matter is for the Minister for Small Business, Innovation and Trade. One of the first institutions I visited in my region after being elected was, unusually, a convent — the Abbotsford Convent. I have always loved the space, regardless of its history of cruelty to women and children and the other nefarious things…

Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) — I am very proud to be here representing the Australian Sex Party on the day the Aboriginal flag was permanently raised above this Parliament. As many people have said, it is a day that has been long overdue. Victorian Aboriginal history is very rich, and that is largely due to…

Ms Patten (Northern Metropolitan) — My adjournment matter is for the Minister for the Prevention of Family Violence. On Friday, 31 July, I hosted a White Ribbon fundraiser to support the White Ribbon campaign. Although anyone can commit family violence, men are drastically over-represented as offenders in this area. During that time, I was able…

MS Patten (Northern Metropolitan) — The other week I was delighted to visit the Thomastown fire station to meet the inspiring firemen — they are all men; there are no women — of brigade A. In a few short hours I saw what state-of-the-art tools and gadgets can be found in the rescue trucks, some…

Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) — Thank you, President, for your earlier birthday wishes that mark the anniversary of my 21st birthday. I could not be happier than to spend today with everyone in this chamber. I must say that when I had my 21st birthday I could not have imagined I would be celebrating it…

Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) — My adjournment matter is for the AttorneyGeneral. On Sunday of this weekend we are celebrating Bicycle Day. This is not the sort of bicycle for which you need to wear shorts or even a helmet; this is Bicycle Day to celebrate the first trip of LSD — lysergic acid diethylamide. LSD was discovered…

Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) — My adjournment matter is for the Minister for Police and concerns Meet Us on the Street — International Anti-Street Harassment Week. From Australia to Zimbabwe, organisers are running a hashtag called #EndSH — end street harassment. This is a problem that tens of millions of people experience, sadly young women and members of the…

Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) — My adjournment matter is for the Honourable Jill Hennessy, the Minister for Health. I call on the Minister for Health to formally allocate funding in the government’s 2015–16 budget to the Royal Children’s Hospital gender dysphoria service. Gender dysphoria is the formal diagnosis used by psychologists to describe people who experience significant…

Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) — My adjournment matter is for the Minister for Planning. I ask him to intervene and to issue a refusal for the application for a permit for the Wesley Church complex at 118–148 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne, which is the site of the Princess Mary Club. The demolition of this beautiful heritage building would…