FINN in the HOUSE Speeches August to December 2020
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FINN IN THE HOUSE Speeches August to December 2020 Published by Bernie Finn MP Member for Western Metropolitan Region Shadow Assistant Minister for Small Business Shadow Assistant Minister for Autism Opposition Whip in the Legislative Council 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 2020 CONTENTS Standing and Sessional Orders ................................. 3 Environment and Planning Committee ...............20 Bulla toxic waste dump consultation ...................... 3 West Gate Tunnel ..........................................................20 Sunbury green wedge .................................................. 3 Police conduct ...............................................................21 Public Health and Wellbeing Amendment Hotel viability in lockdown .......................................21 (State of Emergency Extension and Other Worker Screening Bill 2020 .......................................21 Matters) Bill 2020 ............................................................ 4 Rothwell housing development, Tarneit ..............23 Public Health and Wellbeing Amendment Adjournment .................................................................23 (State of Emergency Extension and Other COVID-19 .........................................................................23 Matters) Bill 2020 ............................................................ 4 Toxic soil dump approval ...........................................24 Lockdown impact on small business ...................... 6 COVID-19 .........................................................................24 West Gate Tunnel ............................................................ 6 Remembrance Day ......................................................24 COVID-19 (Gyms) ............................................................ 6 Western suburbs tree planting ................................25 Government performance .......................................... 6 Local government elections .....................................25 Bulla Tip dust .................................................................... 7 Justice Legislation Amendment (Supporting COVID-19 ........................................................................... 7 Victims and Other Matters) Bill 2020 .....................25 COVID-19 ........................................................................... 7 West Gate Tunnel ..........................................................26 COVID-19 ........................................................................... 9 Responses .......................................................................26 Altona North Landfill ..................................................... 9 China Trade .....................................................................26 COVID-19 Omnibus (Emergency Measures) Sinclairs Road, Plumpton ...........................................27 and Other Acts Amendment Bill 2020 ..................10 Green New Deal ............................................................27 COVID-19 Omnibus (Emergency Measures) Bulla Bridge ....................................................................29 and Other Acts Amendment Bill 2020 ..................11 COVID-19 .........................................................................29 March For The Babies ..................................................11 Parental attendance at schools ...............................29 West Gate Tunnel contaminated soil ....................12 COVID-19 .........................................................................29 Hope for COVID affected families ...........................12 West Gate Tunnel ..........................................................30 Grand Final Friday ........................................................12 Energy Legislation Amendment (Licence Local government rates .............................................12 Conditions) Bill 2020 ...................................................30 Western suburbs medical community..................13 Western suburbs tree planting ................................31 West Gate Tunnel ..........................................................13 Secure Work Pilot Scheme ........................................32 Cardinal George Pell ....................................................13 Return of school parent volunteers .......................33 West Gate Bridge Tragedy Commemoration .....14 Secure Work Pilot Scheme ........................................33 Health Minister’s lockdown explanation .............14 Commercial passenger vehicle industry ..............34 COVID-19 .........................................................................14 West Gate Tunnel ..........................................................35 COVID-19 .........................................................................15 Toxic soil dump public meeting invitation .........35 COVID-19 .........................................................................16 Ravenhall landfill ..........................................................35 Toxic soil dump health priorities ............................16 Tarneit train station .....................................................36 Ronald Alexander Best ...............................................17 Hume City Council .......................................................36 Local government elections .....................................17 COVID-19 .........................................................................36 Small business support ..............................................17 Kealba landfill ................................................................38 AFL Grand Final .............................................................17 Felicitations ....................................................................38 Small business COVID re-opening .........................18 Sunbury Road safety issues ......................................38 Animal Shelters .............................................................18 Appropriation (2020–2021) Bill 2020 ....................38 Bulla tip EPA protection .............................................20 Autism education .........................................................39 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 2020 FINN THE HOUSE COUNCIL | Business of the house issue that needs addressing. We have to come. Minister, this is a deplorable 04 August 2020 a range of other issues. It concerns me situation. Will you restore the rights of enormously that under the cover of my constituents to have their say and COVID we are seeing a government be heard? making decisions about a whole Standing and range of things and it is not open to COUNCIL | Adjournment parliamentary scrutiny. 04 August 2020 Sessional Orders That is why we need this house Mr FINN (Western Metropolitan) — sitting today, we need it sitting For months now I have been watching tomorrow and we need it sitting on a daily basis as the Premier has Thursday. That is why we need the Sunbury green addressed the state, in varying degrees other place sitting today and tomorrow of horror and sadness at some of the and Thursday. Anybody who thinks wedge that they know it all is digging a news that he has delivered. What he Mr FINN (Western Metropolitan) — I hole for all of us. I fear that we have has delivered to the people of Victoria wish to raise an adjournment matter a Premier at the moment who is in this week is something that nobody this afternoon for the attention of the exactly that category. When I see him in Australia has ever seen before. If Minister for Energy, Environment on the television every day telling us, ‘I somebody can right me on this, please and Climate Change. I have been a am doing this; I have decided that’—I, do, but I am not aware that a curfew resident of or certainly involved in the I, I, I—I think to myself, ‘We have got has ever been in place anywhere in local Sunbury and Bulla communities trouble here’. When the Parliament Australia. Not even during the war was for many decades, and over the is dispensed with—and that is what there a curfew. I am not exactly sure years I have seen that space of land has happened, certainly in the lower why the curfew is in place, but I would between Bulla and Sunbury change house—that is when we have real be very keen to ask the Premier, and significantly. It used to be a green problems. certainly I would welcome the Minister wedge, we were told. It was a sacred for Health telling us at some stage as I will support this motion today, but place for the environment, if you well. I really cannot help but emphasise listened to the greenies around the But the fact of the matter is that strongly the need to respect the place, and nobody—nobody—could we have not been able to ask. Parliament, the need to respect our touch that. I think it was just prior These monumental changes in our democracy and the need to respect to the 2002 election that I got into lives—every Victorian’s life—have that every Victorian has a right to have terrible trouble for suggesting that