Mr Gepp ends his powerful speech as a former public housing resident by calling on Ms Lovell to resign over her speech.

He asks Opposition Leader Matthew Guy to denounce her speech as well. #SpringSt

Pleased to hear that Ms Patten supports our Ending Homelessness Bill 👏🏽

She says our push for a plan and a target is clear and makes sense to do. She's also speaking to the importance of recognising housing as a human right in the Charter of Human Rights.

... But what she doesn’t acknowledge is that privatisation has failed.

Let me be clear: public housing is a government responsibility and should be fully funded.

This afternoon the Upper House will be debating a Greens' bill that would require the state government to commit to ending homelessness in Victoria by 2030.

I'll be live-tweeting the debate below, or you can watch it online: bit.ly/3NaHCRV #SpringSt

Today is a day of mourning.

It commemorates 234 years of dispossession, displacement and oppression of First Nations peoples by the invaders of Country.

This Day of Mourning, I stand in solidarity with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

Saving Post Office Creek one mug and one tee-shirt at a time.

'Most progressive State in Australia'

theage.com.au/national/victo…

#WorldHomelessDay2021

I just made a donation to keep a Maccas, KFC, Bunnings and 24/7 petrol station out of my hometown of KYNETON😩 You can help too! givenow.com.au/donation/keepk…

BREAKING: the Senate has just voted to support our amendment demanding that companies making huge profits (like Harvey Norman) are ineligible for payments like JobKeeper - and that they pay it back.

Support is meant for workers, not cashed-up corporations & billionaires.

Despite Josh Frydenberg spending on a #budget deficit twice the size of the most reckless of the Whitlam years, still no investment in #socialhousing , so I guess they don’t like #renters and really believe #socialhousing doesn’t save lives that it entrenches #poverty , go figure.

Well done to City of Sydney, bringing Zero Net Emissions target date for the municipality forward from 2040 to 2035, and backing it up with a plan and funding. Huge task but there’s nothing more important. smh.com.au/environment/cl…

And the childcare educators be one of our most sort after and respected jobs on earth. Get the foundations right ❤

Applications for the #pathwaystopolitics Melbourne School of Government program close Sun 9 May.

The 'program is a great opportunity for women thinking about a role in public life to...gain new skills, knowledge and develop confidence.' Samantha Ratnam

To apply:
government.unimelb.edu.au/engagement/pat…

Government-owned VicForests has been caught illegally logging AGAIN - this time in one of our water catchment areas.

It’s time for Labor to stop destroying our environment, putting our water at risk and pushing our native animals to extinction. abc.net.au/news/2021-04-2… #SpringSt

This latest #Housing2030 podcast is vital listening for those interested in a sustainable public and social housing system @NHFIC_AUS RMIT Centre for Urban Research AHURI UNSW City Futures Research Centre National Shelter #everybodyshome CHIA

As one student gets out of bed, another gets in: thousands are #hotbedding in Australia. How tragic to read this research by Alan Morris from UTS Institute for Public Policy and Governance :.( over 22,700 #InternationalStudents hot-bedding.

theconversation.com/as-one-student… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand

The amendment to the Victoria Planning Provisions is here:

planning.vic.gov.au/schemes-and-am…

Please ⁦Michael Sukkar⁩ produce a National Housing Plan prioritising safety and a home for everyone, instead of runaway prices that reward the ‘housing haves’ and condemns the ‘housing have nots’ to a perilous and anxiety producing existence 🙏🙏🙏 abc.net.au/news/2021-03-2…

Every time I go to Northland now I will think of this incredible David and Goliath story - in 1992 Jeff Kennet closed Northland Secondary College in Preston - the school with the most Koori kids in Victoria. But the principal, teachers and many students refused to accept the 1/3