FINN in the HOUSE Speeches August to December 2017
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FINN IN THE HOUSE Speeches August to December 2017 Published by Bernie Finn MP Member for Western Metropolitan Region Shadow Assistant Minister for Melbourne’s West Shadow Assistant Minister for Autism Spectrum Disorder Shadow Assistant Minister for Electoral Integrity Suite 101, 19 Lacy Street, Braybrook Vic 3019 Telephone (03) 9317 5900 • Fax (03) 9317 5911 Email [email protected] Web www.berniefinn.com Authorised and printed by Bernie Finn MP, Suite 101, 19 Lacy Street, Braybrook. This material was funded from the Parliament Electorate Office & Communications Budget. FINN IN THE HOUSE Speeches August to December 2017 CONTENTS Electricity supply ...................................................................... 3 Minister for Roads and Road Safety .................................22 Children and Justice Legislation Amendment Youth justice centres .............................................................22 (Youth Justice Reform) Bill 2017 ..................................... 3 Gap Road and Horne Street Sunbury ..............................22 Buckley Street level crossing ................................................ 4 Opal Seahaven ........................................................................22 Disability Amendment Bill 2017 ......................................... 4 Legal services commissioner .............................................23 Sentencing Amendment (Sentencing Government performance ..................................................23 Standards) Bill 2017 ............................................................. 5 Wyndham preschool services ............................................28 Buckley Street, Essendon, level crossing ......................... 6 Wyndham kindergartens .....................................................28 Fire Services Bill Select Committee: interim report ...... 6 Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill 2017 ..................................28 Bulla gas supply ........................................................................ 7 Literacy .......................................................................................31 Ravenhall tip odours ............................................................... 7 Buckley Street level crossing ..............................................31 Calder Freeway .......................................................................... 7 Buckley Street, Essendon, level crossing .......................32 RSPCA Victoria ........................................................................... 7 Hume Councillor residential arrangements .................32 Claude Ullin ................................................................................ 8 Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill 2017 ..................................32 Australian Labor Party ............................................................ 8 Hyde Street, Footscray, scout hall .....................................35 City of Wyndham councillor ................................................. 8 Sunbury youth advisory council .......................................35 Point Cook Road ....................................................................... 9 Buckley Street level crossing ..............................................36 Fire Services Bill Select Committee: final report ........... 9 Autism Plus ...............................................................................36 City of Wyndham councillor ...............................................10 Australian Labor Party ..........................................................36 Electorate office budgets ....................................................10 Williamstown sky rail .............................................................36 Ravenhall tip health impact ...............................................10 Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill 2017 ..................................36 Major Sporting Events Amendment (AF Northcote by-election ..........................................................41 Grand Final Tickets) Bill 2017 .........................................10 Sunbury medical services ...................................................41 Australia Day ............................................................................11 Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill 2017 ..................................41 Hume City Council .................................................................12 Don Burke .................................................................................46 Traffic gridlock relief ..............................................................12 Sunbury third railway crossing ..........................................46 Electorate office budgets ....................................................12 Commercial Passenger Vehicle Industry Wyndham Councillor ............................................................12 Amendment (Further Reforms) Bill 2017 ...................46 Autism services .......................................................................13 Les Twentyman Foundation ...............................................47 West Gate tunnel commitment .........................................13 West Gate tunnel EES anger ...............................................47 Government performance ..................................................13 West Gate tunnel project .....................................................48 Fire Services Bill Select Committee: final report .........17 2017 .............................................................................................48 Doctors in Secondary Schools ...........................................17 Sunbury Road congestion ..................................................48 Richmond Football Club ......................................................18 Crimes Legislation Amendment (Protection of Vietnamese community .......................................................18 Emergency Workers and Others) Bill 2017 ................48 Richmond Football Club ......................................................18 Graffiti .........................................................................................49 Environment Protection Bill 2017 .....................................18 Reference ...................................................................................50 Tullamarine Freeway congestion ......................................19 Hume City Council .................................................................51 Sunbury Road upgrade ........................................................19 Transport Legislation Amendment (Road Safety, Children, Youth and Families Amendment Rail and Other Matters) Bill 2017 ..................................51 (Youth Offenders) Bill 2016 .............................................19 West Gate tunnel motorists’ tax ........................................53 Jacksons Hill Sunbury ...........................................................20 Drugs, Poisons and Controlled Substances Williamstown level crossings .............................................20 Amendment (Medically Supervised Injecting Williamstown sky rail .............................................................21 Centre) Bill 2017 ..................................................................53 West Gate Tunnel project ....................................................21 Domestic Animals Amendment (Puppy Farms CityLink-Tullamarine Freeway widening ........................21 and Pet Shops) Bill 2016 ..................................................54 Sunbury development .........................................................21 Hoppers Crossing level crossing .......................................55 VicForests operations ............................................................21 Victoria University Sunbury site ........................................55 Suite 101, 19 Lacy Street, Braybrook Vic 3019 • Telephone (03) 9317 5900 • Fax (03) 9317 5911 Email [email protected] • Web www.berniefinn.com IN 2 AUGUST TO DECEMBER 2017 FINN THE HOUSE COUNCIL | Members statements what we have seen — the youth riots, the must not have been an election coming up; 08 August 2017 destruction of Parkville, the breakouts at that is the only thing that you can say to Malmsbury — has all happened on her explain there being not one Labor member shift. There is no denying that, and she in that huge crowd that engulfed the centre surely cannot deny that with any credibility of Werribee earlier this year. As I say, the Electricity supply — not that she has got a great deal anyway. minister did not show and she was not on Mr FINN (Western Metropolitan) We heard Mr Melhem finish off with a her own. — Victoria is blessed with vast natural flare. I think it was a flare. He told us how We have had this situation where resources. For our state to be facing an much money the Andrews government without consulting anybody the energy crisis is nothing short of criminal. was spending on this particular matter, and government went out and announced Skyrocketing power bills make the lives I thought to myself, ‘Where have I heard that this youth jail was going to be put of working families a misery, and many this before? Where have I heard a Labor in Werribee South. This outraged the pensioners and low-income earners government get up and tell us how much community, but despite the fact that Mr cannot afford to heat their homes in the they are spending?’. What they never tell Pallas said on a number of occasions that coldest winter we have experienced in