The Nationals’ Melina Bath has called for an increase in funding for VICSES to adequately fund Victoria’s volunteer state emergency services units in state parliament. Ms Bath criticised Labor’s Minister…
MELINA BATH (Eastern Victoria) (12:50): (685) My constituency question is for the Minister for Emergency Services. Sitting within the federal government’s National Emergency Management Agency is the volunteer organisation Disaster…
MELINA BATH (Eastern Victoria) (13:37): I rise to pay homage to the people of Gippsland and in particular the good folk of Mirboo North, Darlimurla, Boolarra and Thorpdale, who experienced…
Melina BATH (Eastern Victoria) (12:04): (414) My question is to the Minister for Emergency Services. It has been seven days since a devastating storm ripped a path of destruction through…
Melina BATH (Eastern Victoria) (15:28): Well, I might just take the tone down a little bit and not stand on a soapbox and feign huge distress and feign a whole…
Melina BATH (Eastern Victoria) (17:30): My statement on reports is on bushfire preparedness for the summer of 2023, and it comes from the budget papers – budget paper 3, page 41, for…
Gippsland National MPs Darren Chester and Melina Bath say the Australian Defence Force (ADF) should be called in to help clean up the region after massive storms and flood damage.…
Ms BATH (Eastern Victoria) (17:44): My adjournment matter this evening is for the Minister for Energy, Environment and Climate Change in the other place. It relates to the maintenance of…
Ms BATH: I rise today to really pay homage to our CFA and emergency services workers, who have been doing an amazing job in New South Wales. Many of our Gippsland…
Ms BATH (Eastern Victoria) (15:29:50): Once again our beautiful Gippsland region is suffering from major fires. There are so many fires. Dargo, Licola, Yinnar South and environs and the Bunyip…
