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Parliament of Victoria

Locality: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Phone: +61 3 9651 8911

Address: Spring Street 3002 Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Website: http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au

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17.01.2022 Congratulations to the many Victorians who have been recognised in this year’s Australia Day Honours.

16.01.2022 Our education advisory panel held its Term 4 meeting online today. The panel includes teachers, teacher educators and parliamentary staff. They meet once every term of the school year to provide specialist input to our parliamentary education resources and activities. We are grateful to them for the work they have undertaken this year.

16.01.2022 The parliamentary inquiry into the Victorian Government’s COVID-19 contact tracing system and testing regime will hold its first public hearings on Monday 16 November and Wednesday 18 November. The online hearings will be broadcast live at vicparl.news/broadcast and the schedules for both days of hearings are available at vicparl.news/3ltTgZL.

16.01.2022 Staff from six Pacific and Australian state parliaments got together online today for a professional development workshop focusing on parliamentary committee work. Joining in were staff from the Parliament of the Republic of Fiji; Parliament of Samoa; Legislative Assembly of Tonga FALE ALEA 'O TONGA; Parliament of South Australia - House of Assembly and Legislative Council; Tasmanian Parliament and Victorian Parliament. The workshop was part of a twinning program between Australian and Pacific parliaments aimed at enhancing parliamentary skills through shared learning.

15.01.2022 Celebrating NAIDOC Week 2020 with a message in Parliament today by Legislative Council President Nazih Elasmar. / National NAIDOC

15.01.2022 Here's a snapshot of our sittings held from 24 to 26 November 2020.

11.01.2022 A burst of summer colour in our gardens.

08.01.2022 One of the new bills introduced into Parliament this week changes the way that complaints about wind turbine noise are investigated and handled. You can access the Public Health and Wellbeing Amendment Bill 2020 at vicparl.news/billsthisweek.

07.01.2022 Bring Parliament to the classroom with one of our education programs for 2021. Bookings are now open. We have online incursions for years 5 to 10 and for VCE Legal Studies students. There are also metropolitan school visits for years 5 and 6. All programs are free of charge. Get more details at parliament.vic.gov.au/visit/schooltours.

07.01.2022 Join Melbourne University's Dr Inbar Levy for the latest in our series of Parliamentary Library Webinars, in which she will explore the bright but modest potential of algorithms in the courtroom. This talk investigates the possible ways that algorithms and machine learning might improve decision-making in the courtroom while maintaining important elements of human judgement.

07.01.2022 Our calendar of parliamentary sitting days for 2021 is available at vicparl.news/2MdYRa6. Sittings commence on Tuesday 2 February.

06.01.2022 An extension to Melbourne's Free Tram Zone has been recommended by the Legislative Council's Economy and Infrastructure Committee in its latest report. Committee Chair Enver Erdogan MP speaks about the inquiry, which also considered other public transport issues. Read the report at vicparl.news/2V1DnOF.

06.01.2022 The story of Victoria's Parliament House stretches back more than 160 years.

02.01.2022 Today in Parliament many MPs spoke about Remembrance Day and paid tribute to all who served and sacrificed. Here are some of the statements made. Read more in the Legislative Assembly and Legislative Council Hansard for 11 November 2020 at vicparl.news/2N3IObW.