Happy IDAHOBIT day 💚❤️🧡💜💚💛

We celebrate the strength, resilience and joy of our LGBTIQA+ community and commit to working to end the discrimination, inequality and injustice that is still experience by the community. ...

The Victorian parliament has just ruled that we are not allowed to wear keffiyehs or any items that may represent our solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for peace and liberation.

They may try to control what we wear, but they will never be able to silence our words ✊🏾

#freepalestine🇵🇸❤️ ...

Even Labor’s own members don’t agree with Premier Allan’s public housing destruction plans.

Time to abandon this privatisation agenda and get on with directly building thousands of public homes to ease the worsening housing crisis.

https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/building-unions-labor-branches-clash-with-state-on-housing-towers-demolition-20240512-p5jcvj.html ...

It was brilliant to listen to @viet_t_nguyen in conversation with Nam Le speaking about their recent writing works and navigating diasporic identity across these diverse continents.

Thanks @weare_dvan for bringing this event to life and creating opportunities for us to have these conversations that help us better understand our experiences of migration and difference. It was a fantastic evening! ...

If you want change, vote for it ✊🏾 ...

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We are at the Glenroy Festival today enjoying wonderful conversations with the community and taking in some amazing music 🎶

Come down to Bridget Shortell Reserve in Glenroy and join in the fun! ...

Today we gathered for International Workers Memorial Day to remember the 55 workers who died at work or as a result of work over the last year.

It was heartbreaking to think about the devastation their families and communities have endured after their loved ones didn’t return from work.

The safety of workers is all of our business. There is more that we can do to protect workers from harm, including more work needed by governments.

Thanks to Victorian Trades Hall for a moving ceremony and all the work you do to keep workers safe. ...

26. That’s the number of women who have been killed by gendered violence this year alone across the country. That’s 1 woman dead every 4 days.

This week we mourn the deaths of Molly Ticehurst and Emma Bates and send our love to their families and communities in this terrible time.

We can’t wait until the death toll reaches 1 woman killed every day before taking action.

And there are things we can do now.

This week we’ve heard politicians call for action but stop short of committing to the work they are responsible for. We need to demand they act or things will continue to get worse.

Family and gendered violence is at its core based in gender inequality and attitudes towards women. Disrespectful and violent relationships thrive in silence, fear and shame. It’s pervasive and impacts us all.

In Victoria, we’ve had a groundbreaking Royal Commission into family violence and some very significant reforms as a result. We applaud the Victorian Government for spearheading this work at a political level. But 8 years after that investigation, it is clear more needs to be done.

The Premier has suggested some changes to sentencing and policing in response to more horrific deaths this week, but we must be careful not to let policing come at the cost of prevention. It’s an easy go-to response for some politicians but it hasn’t worked in isolation.

We know what can reduce violence against women-the Royal Commission was clear. We need to fund and commit to these measures.

In Victoria, the family sector has been crying out for more support and funding. There are things Premier Allan can do right now to respond to the crisis - for a start, fund support services properly and build more public housing because women can’t leave refuges for months on end because there are not enough homes to go to.

If any politician wants to be taken seriously on addressing the family violence crisis, they need to commit to these asks from the sector and more.

No more hand-wringing.

Premier Allan, please act now. ...

Today especially as the nation marks Anzac Day, we reflect and remember the lives lost and sacrifices suffered because of war.

As its horrors are felt by millions across the world right now, especially in Gaza and Ukraine, we must never forget the civilians lives too.

War changes everyone. And it is a fundamental failure of our humanity.

Peace is not a radical concept, and those who pursue its mission should not be derided.

Many of those who served in wars became the strongest advocates for peace.

We will remember them.

Artwork by @katie_oshea_design ...

Congratulations @elleninmelbourne on becoming the new leader of the @victoriangreens!

I’ve had the privilege of working with Ellen for nearly a decade in the Greens and over 6 years in state parliament. She is courageous, determined and is a visionary. She is not afraid to stare down the fossil fuel giants, logging companies and big corporations, and I know she will achieve big things with this united, inspired team of MPs.

Our new leadership team is powerful, driven by outcomes and will grow the Greens in Victoria.

It has been the honour of my life to work with this team and lead the parliamentary Greens for nearly 7 years.

Over that time, we have doubled our party room and taken the fight on climate, housing and cost of living inequality up to Labor and the Liberals, pushing them to do better.

We have amplified the voices of the community inside and outside of the parliament and always kept people and the planet at the heart of everything we do.

I know that Ellen and the team will continue this work with passion and determination. I can’t wait to see what they achieve!

I will be continuing in the Parliament as member for Northern Metropolitan, serving the community until the party chooses my replacement. After which I am looking forward to helping turn the federal seat of Wills Green for the very first time 💚 ...