Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) (11:54): My constituency question is for the Minister for Planning. The MCG Trust, the Melbourne Cricket Club and the Yarra Park trust have changed the regulations for the precinct around the MCG known as Yarra Park to ban amplified sound. Yarra Park is an entertainment precinct. Under these changes it will be impossible to have entertainment. All the outdoor events that could have been hosted in a COVID-safe manner cannot go ahead. These events bring in millions of dollars of investment. We need investment in outdoor events to help rebuild the economy. The MCC sprang this change on stakeholders in late November. Moving the goalposts is just not cricket. Will the minister instruct the MCG Trust and the Yarra Park trust to reverse their decision and allow amplified sound at Yarra Park?
Yarra Park
Fiona Patten MP
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