Greens MLC Colleen Hartland has described the government's litter announcement as a $6 million attempt to deflect criticism on Clean-up Australia Day tomorrow.

"A ten cent deposit turns litterers into recyclers.  It stops the litter before it hits the ground. As Ian Kiernan of Clean-Up Australia said - 'who would walk past a silver coin lying on the ground'."

Bushfires: prevention
Mr BARBER (Northern Metropolitan) -- My question is to the Minister for Environment and Climate Change, Mr Jennings. In November I asked the minister about his response to a number of fires that had been inadvertently lit in VicForests logging operations in the Murrindindi area. It seems that the fire last summer that had the most impact in terms of area and threat to humans may have been the Cann River fire. Touch wood that it will be the last one and we will not see anything like that for the remainder of the season. Can the minister confirm that that fire was ignited at a VicForests logging site and can he tell me whether they were operating at the time within the undertaking that he described in his earlier answer in November?

The Greens would like to congratulate the organisers and participants of yesterday's very successful rally.  It was great to see so many generations and genres represented amongst the many thousands who attended.  The message to the government was clear - live music doesn't cause violence.

The accord signed this week to reduce pressure on live music licence conditions is a first step, not a solution, the Greens say.