Hansard debates

... Sam HIBBINS (Prahran) (14:30): My question is to the Premier. Experts have said that the government’s housing plan, which relies on private property developers to solve the housing crisis, would require the price of apartments to rise by at least 15 per cent. Premier, why does the government’s plan ...

... Sam HIBBINS (Prahran) (14:33): We all know it has been years of government inaction that has got us to this point in the housing crisis. The only way the government can actually guarantee that the new homes will be built – Members interjecting. The SPEAKER: Order! I cannot hear the ...

... Sam HIBBINS (Prahran) (10:13): Get around the Prahran footy club, the famous Two Blues, for winning the 2024 Victorian Amateur Football Association division 1 premiership. Prahran capped off a fantastic year with a really hard-fought victory over Parkside to collect the club’s 13th flag. The dedication, skill and commitment ...

... Sam HIBBINS (Prahran) (14:55): (856) My constituency question is to the Minister for Housing, and I ask it on behalf of the residents of the public housing tower at 259 Malvern Road: what evidence can the government provide to justify changing their decision of retaining the towers to demolishing them?...

... Sam HIBBINS (Prahran) (10:13): I rise to congratulate Windsor local Stella Barton, who competed in the para-equestrian with her stallion Lord Larmarque, aka Bug, in the Paralympics, competing in the grade 1 individual freestyle dressage. The emotion from Stella and everyone watching after her final ride was so evident ...

... Sam HIBBINS (Prahran) (10:14): It is time for our governments to stand up and step in to take bold action to tackle the cost-of-living crisis, not shrink from the crisis, not be small government, not backflip, not throw communities under the bus like the federal government did with the census ...

... Sam HIBBINS (Prahran) (14:28): My question is to the Premier. The Premier has signed a $100 million contract to demolish public housing towers at North Melbourne and Flemington. These are the first three of 44 public housing towers the government plans to demolish across Melbourne, despite hundreds of residents still living ...

... Sam HIBBINS (Prahran) (14:33): My supplementary question is to the Premier. Despite signing a demolition contract for these two estates, there are no public plans for what will be built, no contract for the rebuild and no guarantee that there will be a single public housing home built as part of ...

... Sam HIBBINS (Prahran) (18:23): (847) My adjournment matter is for the Minister for Planning, and the action I seek is for the minister to finally lift the Punt Road public acquisition overlay. This overlay on Punt Road has been in place for 70 years, and I recently joined residents ...

... Sam HIBBINS (Prahran) (14:45): (796) My question is to the Minister for Housing, and I ask on behalf of residents who reside in public housing: when will the government implement the recommendations laid out in the Ombudsman’s report on the social housing complaints handling system? Two years have passed ...