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PARLIAMENT

2nd Reading: Victorian Future Fund Bill 2023

This is my 2nd Reading in opposition to the Victorian Future Fund Bill 2023, which is little more than a vehicle for this government’s neoliberal agenda. 

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Adjournment: Preston Market

This adjournment matter was for the Minister for Planning, and requested that she responded to community pleas for Preston Market to be publicly acquired, and saved from demolition. 

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Adjournment: Port Melbourne Housing Estate

This adjournment matter was for the Minister for Housing, asking the that he stops the demolition and privatisation of Barak Beacon. 

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Members Statement: International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

In this Members Statement, Samantha Ratnam speaks on the need to fight against racism and discrimination on the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. 

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Adjournment: Homelessness

In this adjournment, I asked the Minister for Housing for an immediate funding increase for the 'From Homelessness to a Home' program and a commitment to Housing First models in Victoria. 

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Members statement: Behrouz Boochani

In this Member Statement, Samantha Ratnam acknowledges the advocacy of Kurdish journalist and writer Behrouz Boochani. 

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2nd Reading: Raise the Age Bill

In the first week of Parliament for 2023, I second read the Greens' bill to raise the age of criminal responsibility from 10 to 14.  

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Motion: Group voting tickets

That this house: (1) acknowledges that Victoria continues to be the only jurisdiction in Australia that uses the undemocratic group voting system to elect members to this place; (2) notes that after the 2021 Western Australian state election, where a representative from the Daylight Saving Party was elected with 98...

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Members statement: Climate Action

As we begin the work of the 60th Parliament I hope that the issues that impact our community the most are given the space and time to be aired and hopefully solved in this place. We owe it to all those who chose us to be their representatives, and we owe...

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Adjournment: Response to Rise of Far-Right Extremism Inquiry

My adjournment matter tonight is for the Premier, and my ask is that his government responds to the Legal and Social Issues Committee’s inquiry, completed in the last Parliament, into the rise of far-right extremism in Victoria. Over the summer it has once again been distressing to see groups of...

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