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Thursday, December 13. 2007
2007 Legislative Achievements in Victoria
More than 90 bills were considered in Parliament this year and 74 bills were passed, as the Victorian Government got to work on implementing its election promises and continued to set the agenda for the future on important issues like the environment.Parliament has passed a number of key bills in 2007, ensuring that Victoria continued to lead Australia in a number of areas. These include:
- The Victorian Energy Efficiency Bill, which will introduce energy efficiency targets for energy retailers to meet and will provide incentives for homeowners to save energy;
- The Infertility Treatment Bill – keeping Victoria at the forefront of medical research by allowing scientists to carry out stem cell research and to continue to pioneer new medical treatments for diseases such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s;
- Increasing the assistance for Victims of crime and increasing sentences for a number of offences, including possessing a prohibited or controlled weapon;
- Strengthening the laws on DNA and enabling use of a national database;
- Tough new laws to deter graffiti. For the first time in Victoria, graffiti will be a specific offence under the new Graffiti Prevention Act. Graffiti vandals now face a greater risk of criminal charges including up to two years in prison and heavy fines;
- Legislation creating the new offence of child homicide to better reflect the seriousness with which the community views the killing of a child; and
- Introduction of a two stage P plate licence and other new road safety measures.
Already on next year’s parliamentary agenda are important bills like the New Freedom of Information laws, which will do a number of things including removing application fees and increasing the amount of information provided on the Internet.
2008 will also see the Victorian Parliament debate the establishment of a Relationships Register so that unmarried people who live together can register their relationship for legal purposes – such as agreements on property.
We will also push forward with our program of cleaning up and modernising Victoria’s statute books by repealing old Acts, with the removal of the first two in a series of Bills to be debated.
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