A strong public education system is an important leveller in society. It shouldn’t matter your background or what your parents can afford, equal access to education is a fundamental right. (4/4)
Vic public schools receive thousands of dollars less per student than the rest of the country, and our teachers are the lowest paid.
This has real impacts on outcomes. It means less support for students, programs being cut, and more kids falling through the cracks. (3/4)
The Greens secured this inquiry last year after we learnt Labor quietly cut $2.4 billion from Victorian public schools, by delaying meeting their minimum funding requirements.
This delay also means Vic schools lose millions in Commonwealth funding. (2/4)
How does Victoria’s underfunding of public schools impact children, families, teachers, and the broader community?
That’s the question we’re hoping to answer on Thursday at the first hearing of the parliamentary inquiry into Vic Labor’s $2.4 billion public school cuts. (1/4)
We’ve seen scandal after scandal in Victoria. To clean this up - not just this time, but stop it from happening again - IBAC needs the powers it has been asking for. Anything less is a cop-out. (5/5)
Presently, IBAC can only investigate suspected criminal offences, but we know corruption often exists in the grey, the sort of thing you might get sacked for.
Victoria's current definition of corruption is so tight that IBAC can't even make findings of "corrupt conduct". (4/5)
The Liberals have introduced a Bill that would give IBAC two of these powers, follow the dollar and public hearings, but leaves out the most crucial power, expanding IBAC’s jurisdiction
But IBAC's jurisdiction must be expanded if we want it to investigate corruption. (3/5)
On Monday in a public hearing, I asked the IBAC boss what powers IBAC needs to investigate Big Build corruption.
The Greens Bill includes all these reforms; follow the dollar powers, public hearings & expanding IBAC's jurisdiction to investigate grey corruption. (2/5)
The Greens are bringing our anti-corruption reforms to parliament again today.
The majority of Victorians want investigation into corruption on Labor’s Big Build - the only people standing in the way are Jacinta Allan and the Labor Party. (1/5)
Labor pulled out every trick in the book to stop the laws passing, including leaning on cross-benchers to shoot down anti-corruption laws.
It begs the question, what are Labor trying so hard to hide? (5/5)
Think about that: billions handed by Labor to private corporations and contractors has allegedly disappeared to corruption, but our anti-corruption watchdog can’t track this money - and that’s how Labor wants it. (4/5)
We’ve known the problem for years. IBAC doesn't have the power to follow public money into outsourced Government projects. The Greens reforms would have given IBAC these powers.
Other states have these, but Vic has some of the weakest anti-corruption laws in the country. (3/5)
This is the second time this week Labor have run away from investigating corruption. First, the Premier said she’d referred it to IBAC despite knowing IBAC lacked the power. And this evening, Labor adjourned their Bill within minutes of learning they didn’t have the numbers (2/5)
BREAKING: Labor just blocked the Greens reforms to Victoria's anti-corruption watchdog, preventing it from investigating $15 billion lost to corruption on Labor’s Big Build Projects.
Labor saw the parliament was going to pass the Greens reforms so they pulled the Bill. (1/5)
This is on top of the $2.4 billion that Labor secretly cut from public schools by delaying their funding commitments.
At this point I’m convinced they’re being satirical when calling Vic the education state, or maybe they just mean private schools.
It seems like Jacinta Allan’s Labor gov will do anything they can to cut funding to public schools.
This isn’t new. Vic Labor have been using this trick to reduce funding for schools for years.
www.theage.com.au/national/vic...
We show up to school fetes and fundraisers to try and pay for broken roofs, toilets, air conditioners, and just general upkeep of aging schools, while the Labor Government is using the depreciation of our school buildings as an accounting trick to underfund our public schools?
Fossil fuel companies make billions in profit, get handed public money by the major parties, and leave impacted communities to clean up their mess.
Join the Greens call to make coal & gas companies pay for the damage caused by fires and floods.
greens.org.au/vic/campaign...
When we learnt tobacco products cause cancer, we started taxing big tobacco companies to pay, at least in part, for the damage they cause.
Why don't we do the same for climate polluters? (½)
Everyone but Labor can see that slamming the door on prevention is a false economy.
Right now, they don't have to numbers to get a Bill to abolish VicHealth through the upper house, but Jacinta Allan still defended the short-sighted plan.
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
Closing VicHealth is a false economy. I've started a petition to save VicHealth, and I'd like your signature.
You can come by my office to sign or print it and collect signatures. If we get 2000 paper signatures, we trigger a debate in parliament. (2/2)
timread.org.au/issue/save-v...
I spoke to the ABC about my recent cancer diagnosis, my decision to step down as Greens MP for Brunswick at the next state election, and my fury at the state Labor Government for slamming the door on preventative health by abolishing VicHealth. (1/2)
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
Thanks for the well wishes @greenelects.world
The Greens secured an inquiry into Labor’s $2.4 billion public school cuts which is due to begin this year.
We can’t let Labor get away with these cuts, funding our schools to fail and locking Vic teachers into low salaries for years to come. 4/4
Victorian Labor's choice to underfund public schools also means Vic Schools lose out on millions in federal funding. Getting thousands of dollars less per student than all other states and territories.
Victorian public schools are the lowest funded in the country. 3/4
It’s no wonder Vic has a teacher shortage crisis; all they have to do is cross the border to NSW to get a $15,000+ pay rise.
That’s nearly $300 a week less in Vic, at a time where housing, groceries, everything is costing more. We can do better by our teachers. 2/4
Not surprised that Victorian teachers are considering industrial action.
Vic teachers are the lowest paid in Aus & last year Jacinta Allan's Labor Gov cut $2.4 billion from public schools, most of which would have gone to boosting school staff & increasing teacher salaries. 1/4
AUKUS will cost $375 billion.
That's $1,000,000 of taxpayer money, every single day, for more than 1,000 years.
And we're handing it over to Trump.
AUKUS is financially irresponsible and ties our foreign policy to Trump's caprice. What further excuse does Albo need to cancel it?
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
It's time for Australia to review AUKUS and ask ourselves if we want to keep supporting the US military when it resorts to old-fashioned piracy, ignores international law, and worsens the climate crisis. (2/2)
Full statement from the Greens here bsky.app/profile/davi...
