Community Campaigns

Vichealth has introduced a new website, VictoriaWalks.

Encouraging walking is a great way to change your neighbourhood for the better. When you walk, you meet your neighbours, get healthy, save money and save the planet. We’ve found the best, most practical tools to help promote walking so take a stroll around the site and get inspired.  The website has an extensive array of resources and tools to assist people to work together to make their neighbourhoods better for walking (both socially and physically). 

Please find attached the concept plans for the redevelopment of the Brunswick Baths. Submissions are invited until May 13th, please see the website for further details on the plans and how to submit your comments.

Council will make a final decision after all submissions have be considered, so if you have concerns or thoughts I urge you to send an email, write a letter or feel free to give me a call. This is a major project and is only worth doing if we get it right!

Kind Regards,
Cr Alice Pryor
South Ward
Moreland City Council
e apryor@moreland.vic.gov.au
m 0427 505 582

- $2.5 million from the Brumby Labor Government to redevelop Brunswick Baths
- Part of a $15 million facelift that will fix the pools, retain the toddler pool and expand the gym
- Will conserve water and lower emissions

I am pleased to announce that the Victorian Government is contributing $2.5 million towards the redevelopment of the Brunswick City Baths

Brunswick City Baths is one of the most important community facilities in Brunswick. It is used by everyone—young and old, healthy and infirm. And it has been this way for over ninety years

The challenge for Labor, having tackled the worst excesses of the Howard immigration legacy, is to introduce a new set of values to immigration detention – values that seek to emphasise a risk-based approach to detention and prompt resolution of cases rather than punishment....
Today I want to announce that Cabinet has endorsed a policy containing seven values that will guide and drive new detention policy and practice into the future.
These values will result in a risk-based approach to the management of immigration clients.

The Government’s seven key immigration values are:

1. Mandatory detention is an essential component of strong border control.
2. To support the integrity of Australia’s immigration program, three groups will be subject to mandatory detention:
(a) all unauthorised arrivals, for management of health, identity and security risks to the community
(b) unlawful non-citizens who present unacceptable risks to the community and
(c) unlawful non-citizens who have repeatedly refused to comply with their visa conditions.
3. Children, including juvenile foreign fishers and, where possible, their families, will not be detained in an immigration detention centre (IDC).
4. Detention that is indefinite or otherwise arbitrary is not acceptable and the length and conditions of detention, including the appropriateness of both the accommodation and the services provided, would be subject to regular review.
5. Detention in immigration detention centres is only to be used as a last resort and for the shortest practicable time.
6. People in detention will be treated fairly and reasonably within the law.
7. Conditions of detention will ensure the inherent dignity of the human person.

Labor’s reforms will fundamentally change the premise underlying detention policy.

• Typical Victorian workers on AWAs earn 23 per cent less than their counterparts on collective agreements.
  
• Median wage rates for AWAs in Victoria were significantly lower because there were fewer high-paid mining jobs and a bigger take up of AWAs in the hospitality industry.
  
• Australia-wide, the study showed a typical worker employed under the Federal Government’s AWAs earned 16% less than a typical worker on a registered collective agreement.
  
• It found Australians employed on collective agreements were paid a median $24.50 an hour, some $4 an hour more than those on median AWA earnings.
  
•  Over half of AWAs abolished entitlements such as overtime pay, penalty rates, public holiday payments, shift loadings and other allowances.