Local Government Bill 2019
Environment & Planning Committee reference
Gender Equality Bill 2019
Procedure Committee Reference
(a) the ability to petition the Parliament is a right of all Victorian citizens; (b) petitions are the only way an individual or group of citizens can directly place grievances before the Parliament; (c) petitions provide an important tool for improving community engagement with the political process;(2) notes that:
(a) a petition...
Local Government (Casey City Council) Bill 2020
Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) (15:23): It gives me no pleasure to get up to speak on this bill. I must say I do get quite disturbed when we do this in this chamber. This is not the first time we have done this, but certainly I think I am more troubled by this circumstance where we are dismissing a council than I have been in previous cases. When I have read the reports in previous cases I have seen some systemic problems with those organisations. In this report that we only received this morning the monitor clearly states...
Legislative Council regional sittings
Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) (19:09): I move:
That the bill be now read a second time.
In Victoria, right now, there are around 11 000 children unable to live with their parents, and find themselves in the statutory care of the state. That is, their legal guardian or parent is the government.
This may be the result of violence in the home, or issues with mum or dad’s mental health.
Most of these children are living in foster or kinship care, but around 6 per cent live in residential or group homes.
Currently...
The Hon. John Cain
Ms PATTEN (Northern Metropolitan) (13:16): I am very pleased to join in this condolence motion today. John Cain—member for Bundoora; Labor leader; three-term Premier; husband to Nancye; father to John, James and Joanne; grandfather and great-grandfather—was a true son of Northern Metropolitan. His father, the 34th Premier, was a long-serving member for Jika Jika, later named Northcote, and his mother a successful businesswoman with a string of millinery stores throughout the north. As a child he ran through the schoolyards of Bell Primary, he spent many years at the historic Northcote High School and of course the University...