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Greens MP Colleen Hartland has called upon the Minister for Roads and Ports to commit to funding the on-off ramps from the Westgate Bridge to Hyde St in this year’s budget, regardless of whether the state government receives federal funding for the ramps.

In a speech to Parliament this week Ms Hartland has said that the failure of the height detection cameras to deter truck drivers from breaking the curfew shows that the only solution to trucks on residential streets is to remove them completely. The on-off ramps will allow this to happen.

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'."

Greens MP Colleen Hartland has expressed great concern about Essendon
Cricket club’s planned move to Fairbairn Park, Ascot Vale, and questioned
why Moonee Valley Council and the State Government are supporting the move
so strongly.

"Moonee Valley Council has largely ignored the opposition expressed by 200

Greens MP Colleen Hartland has lashed out at the Government in Parliament last night for the bungled upgrade of Footscray and Laverton stations which she described as "distressing and potentially harmful to members of our community ".

Greens MLC Colleen Hartland announced that she will re-introduce her legislation for a 10c deposit system if she is re-elected in November, at the launch of the Boomerang Alliance "Green Jobs" package this morning.  She called on the government to change its policy.

The deal announced today on live music licence conditions is a first step, not a solution, the Greens say.

Greens MLC Greg Barber said  " The licence conditions that killed the Tote were put on at the discretion of the Commissioner and could have been removed at the stroke of a pen.  There are many, many other venues with the same conditions, and lots of pubs that won't run any kind of music at all because it's too much of a hassle."

Greens MLC Colleen Hartland has lent her support to the Action on Cinema Access protest outside Greater Union Cinemas in Russell Street at 11am today.

 “Dangerous industries in the west have ageing infrastructure and poor records, and Mobil is one of the worst,” said Greens MLC Colleen Hartland, at the site of this morning’s massive petrol spill in Altona.

“The government only takes notice when an event is big enough to affect other areas, like this one, or there’s a by-election, like this week. Labor and Liberal governments have the same attitude.  They expect us to put up with it.”

“These are dinosaur industries with ageing infrastructure.  Mobil is sacking workers in Altona because they’re not going to make bitumen any more, and they’re sacking workers in Yarraville because they’re not going to make lubricant. ”

* 2010 Annual Statement of Government Intentions, page 32.

Taking part in the 15th annual pride march yesterday, Greens MP Sue Pennicuik, reiterated her determination to resist the plan by Attorney General Rob Hulls to continue to allow religious schools to discriminate against job applicants on the grounds of sex, sexuality, marital and/or parental status.

"In September last year, the Attorney General announced his intention to allow these exemptions or exceptions to continue under the Equal opportunity Act", said Ms Pennicuik. "There is no excuse to allow such a blatant breach of human rights to continue under Victorian law".