I rise to update the house on the progress of the housing affordability task force in making buying a home more affordable for Victorian families. Housing affordability is one of the most complex and, might I say, urgent public policy issues confronting modern Australia. Home..

That this bill be now read a second time. Every family is different, but every family wants the same thing. They want their kids to have the best start in life. They want jobs that will exist next year, in industries that will exist next..

I rise to express my sincere gratitude to the people who rushed to assist the family involved in the horrific road incident in Wyndham Vale last Wednesday. I have expressed my condolences already to the family; however, I would like to reiterate today my deepest..

The member for Bundoora raised the implementation of processes that ensure the highest standards of probity and rigour in future infrastructure project contracts. Under the former government, the moral and commercial integrity of infrastructure procurement went into freefall. This decline culminated in the despicable side..

I thank all contributors to this debate — the members for Malvern, Melbourne, Mornington and Gippsland East. I will pick up on some of the comments made and the content of the discussion around the amendments to the bill, and I want to reinforce my appreciation..

I rise to inform the house of my visit on 6 February to the Wyndham Private Medical Centre in Werribee. The Wyndham clinic is currently undergoing a significant expansion of its medical facilities, including expanding its day care facilities and the addition of a new operating..

Mr PALLAS (Tarneit) — Once again schools and vital community services in the city of Wyndham have missed out under the Napthine government. In the recent round of school funding announcements no funding for upgrades to Wyndham schools has occurred. The Napthine government has continued..

Mr PALLAS (Tarneit) — Just over a year ago I visited residents and staff at the only government-owned nursing home in the city of Wyndham, South Stone Lodge, with the Leader of the Opposition and Ms Jenny Mikakos, a member for the Northern Metropolitan Region..

Mr PALLAS (Tarneit) — Once again, we have to question what value the government sees in debating matters of public importance of this nature. Over the past four years the government has brought before this house about a dozen of these self-congratulatory matters of public..

Mr PALLAS (Tarneit) I too rise to speak on the Family Violence Protection Amendment Bill 2014 and the amendments made in the other place. Firstly, I note that the bill proposes to amend the Family Violence Protection Act 2008 to enable family violence safety notices..

Mr PALLAS  (Tarneit) — There is only one certainty in thisdebate on the east-west link, and that is that the people of Victoria deserve aright to have a say on a key piece of infrastructure. By the government’s ownadmission, this project could cost up to..

Mr PALLAS (Tarneit)— I am pleased to reflect on VictorianLabor’s commitment to funding education in Melbourne’s western suburbs. I havein the past few weeks joined with the parents and teachers of two schools in myelectorate, Tarneit P-9 College and Werribee Secondary College, after havingspent most..

Mr  PALLAS  (Tarneit) — Hubris is no substitute for honest hard work,and Victorians do not need a magazine to tell them what they already know —that Victoria is a great place to live. It is a great place that could be somuch better if members of..

Mr PALLAS (Tarneit)  — I too rise to outline the opposition’sposition and its concern about what effectively is legislation that is much adoabout nothing. This legislation comes from a government that has talked thetalk to business and to industry about its desire to create jobs,..

Mr PALLAS (Tarneit) — I rise to speak on the Sentencing Amendment(Emergency Workers) Bill 2014, and in so doing I indicate that Labor does notoppose the bill. One of the great challenges in a modern society is to ensure thatthe legislation we bring to this..

  Mr PALLAS (Tarneit) — I too rise to speak in support of the Assisted Reproductive Treatment Further Amendment Bill 2013. From the outset it is important to indicate that the Labor Party supports as a fundamental principle a child’s right to access information about..

Mr  PALLAS (Tarneit)  — It  gives me   — It  gives me  great pleasure to rise to  support this bill. The opposition’s  view  is  that  measures designed to address the safety of our roads, to  reduce our road toll and to reduce  the insidious  impact of ..

Mr Pallas  (Tarneit)  — I congratulate  two  members of  my  local community, Barbara Wells and Allan Kendall, who recently celebrated 45 years of  service to the Werribee Country Fire Authority (CFA).  It was a great pleasure to see their hard work  publicly recognised  by the Werribee..