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■ Euroa MLA Annabelle Cleeland has expressed alarm at the high local rates of family violence - with nowhere for people to turn,. “The state’s debt burden is not a harmless number tucked away in a spreadsheet; it has ramifications on every Victorian family and every Victorian household. It is a weight that families in Kilmore, Broadford, Euroa, Seymour, Benalla – all households – are carrying,” Ms Cleeland told Parliament. “During a family violence crisis, we have our only Orange Door in the electorate closed and people are forced to travel without public transport into other regions – 12,500 square kilometres and we do not have an Orange Door in an area with one of the highest rates of family violence in the state. “That is what a heartless government does, and that is what one that cannot manage money does. “There are cuts to community health and mental health services – I am sorry, those on the other side want to argue about family violence figures in my electorate? “That reiterates how heartless this government are and how they are abandoning regional Victorian families when they need it most. Millions have been stripped out of the very programs that once kept people well by supporting intervention. We are losing our mental health counsellors at a time where we have lost too many young men’s lives in recent years because they had nowhere to go.”
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■ Northern Metropolitan MLC Evan Mulholland is concerned about the State Government being able to siphon money from funds for non-local projects. “My constituency question is for the Minister for Planning [Sonya KIilkenny], and it is to cease with proposed amendments to the Growth Areas Infrastructure Contribution Fund,” Mr Mulholland told Parliament. “Several councils across my electorate, including Hume City Council, including Mitchell Shire, including the City of Whittlesea and the City of Wyndham and others, are very concerned about the government’s planned changes that are about to come before this house, whereby the Government will be able to dip into that fund for projects completely unrelated to the council area it is collected from, which provides the revenue for that fund through the growth area infrastructure taxes. “We already know that this State Government is siphoning hundreds of millions of dollars to prop up the state budget from this GAIC fund, not willing to spend it but collecting it and waiting two years for construction costs to increase by 20 per cent before spending it. Cease with this,” Mr Mulholland said.
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