Speeches

Future of Point Nepean Site - Speech to Parliament

21-Jun-2010 Mr Hunt (Flinders) (8:50 PM) —It is a pleasure to appear before you this evening. There is, I want to make it absolutely clear, a grievance which I bring to this chamber on behalf of my electorate of Flinders. The future of Point Nepean, on the eastern side of the Mornington Peninsula at the bottom end of Port Phillip, was settled three years ago. ... more

Home Insulation Program - Matter of Public Importance

16-Jun-2010 Overnight we heard that the number of homes affected by house fires linked to the Home Insulation Program had jumped to 174. Think of a small country town—174 houses are enough to comprise the number of homes in a small country town. Every home in that small country town would, in effect, have been impacted by the Home Insulation Program. The ... more

Whaling - Ministerial Statement Reply

15-Jun-2010 The Coalition support clearly, simply, absolutely a total ban on scientific whaling wherever it may occur. We support a total ban on commercial whaling wherever it may occur. There is no justification for scientific or commercial whaling in the 21st century. That relic of history has passed. That moment in time has gone. We now seek to ensure a ... more

Budget Speech (Appropriation Bills)

02-Jun-2010 I want to begin with some simple numbers as we look at the appropriation bills. The simple numbers relate to one of the government’s programs which was emphasised in last year’s budget. That is the Home Insulation Program. This program was set out as a $2.45 billion program which would achieve 2.7 million homes as being subject to insulation. ... more

Make Poverty History

31-May-2010 I offer my thanks and congratulations to the member for Calwell for her motion today. The abject and dehumanising impact of poverty on more than a billion fellow souls—that is what this motion is about. That is what we, as a parliament and as people who are part of a broader global community, recognise and focus upon.  We know that of all the ... more

A Plan for Koo Wee Rup and Lang Lang

31-May-2010 I rise today to set out a five-point plan to achieve improvements in the towns of Koo Wee Rup and Lang Lang. These two magnificent towns are within my electorate of Flinders. They are at the top of and to the north-east of Western Port.  The local residents are tremendous people. I am fortunate to have worked with many of them on projects such as ... more

Renewable Energy (Electricity) Amendment Bill 2010 and cognate bills

26-May-2010 Mr HUNT (Flinders) (11.14 am)—The coalition has been the champion of support for and the advocate of the great renewable technologies which are part of the future for Australia’s clean energy generation— solar and wind, geothermal and tidal. Beyond that, we see the potential of biomass and waste coalmine gas, clean energy sources, renewable ... more

Rosebud Aquatic Centre

25-May-2010 Just over a year ago I attended a rally on the Rosebud foreshore with members of the Rosebud community and my colleague Martin Dixon, the state member for Nepean. That was a rally in support of a Rosebud aquatic centre, a southern Peninsula aquatic centre. It is a project to which the local community has been committed for some years. It is a ... more

Speech - Somerville Community Meeting

24-May-2010 Mr Speaker, may I say it is a pleasure to present in your august presence this evening. On Thursday evening last week, 20 May, I held a community meeting in Somerville with my state colleague, the member for Hastings, Neale Burgess. Somerville is a wonderful town which has a remarkable history. It was one of Victoria’s fruit growing capitals. It ... more

Speech - Crib Point Bitumen Plant decision

11-Mar-2010 Mr HUNT (Flinders) (9:30 AM) —I want to raise the issue of the Crib Point bitumen plant. In the last weeks we have seen the shock revelation that the Victorian Minister for Planning and Community Development had been engaged in a program of public subterfuge. A press plan was released inadvertently by his office which showed a sham process for ... more

Speech - Gunnamatta Success: Victorian EPA has finally given the go-ahead for upgrade

11-Mar-2010 Mr HUNT (Flinders) (12:37 PM) —I want to speak in relation to the Gunnamatta outfall in my electorate. This is an outfall which sees 150 billion litres of partially treated sewage dumped off the coast every year. Four hundred million litres of partially treated sewage is dumped off the coast at one of Australia’s great surf beaches every day. ... more

Phillip Island Health, Balnarring Pedestrian Crossing and Inghams

23-Feb-2010 Mr HUNT (Flinders) (4.13 pm)—I congratulate the 3,000 Phillip Island residents who have organised and signed a petition to ensure that the former Warley Hospital site is either purchased or leased by the state government to create an accident and emergency centre in addition to a bulk-billing clinic. Phillip Island has been in desperate need of ... more