Greg Barber

The outer limits - The Age

Metro: stopping most stations - The Age

Q: What do these MPs have in common? A: They are out and proud atheists - Sunday Age

Windsor probe falls into chaos - The Age

Justin Madden gatecrashes inquiry - ABC TV News

Mr BARBER (Northern Metropolitan) -- My question is for the Minister for Environment and Climate Change. It relates to a number of programs that the minister's various departments would be pushing for, including rebates around water tanks, solar hot water, solar PV (photovoltaic cells), even insulation, and in this case even window shadings.

 Rail: station information

 Mr BARBER (Northern Metropolitan) -- My local railway station is Brunswick station, where there are a whole bunch of those perspex noticeboards; there are probably five or six of about A1 size. When I went down there the other day all of the material that was on those noticeboards had been taken away, and signs had been put up saying, 'myki is coming', 'myki is here', 'This is how to use your myki card', blah, blah, blah. One of things that was taken off the boards was the train timetable. A map of the network, which I am familiar with, had also been removed.

Accident Compensation Amendment Bill

 Mr BARBER (Northern Metropolitan) -- I do not get to watch much TV these days, but when I see those WorkCover ads they are all about Jacko or Mary who has been injured and who we are giving the opportunity to go back to work. Jacko is coming back with his arm in a sling: 'It's all right; it's great to have you back. We're going to put you in the tool shop for a while'.

Mr BARBER (Northern Metropolitan) -- Before Christmas the 2009 Victoria Summit was hosted by the Victorian Employers Chamber of Commerce and Industry. The partnership opportunities document can still be seen on the VECCI website, where it is suggested to their partners that:

 Mr BARBER (Northern Metropolitan) -- This ain't the curiosity show, this ain't where we pull out our chemistry set and run a few little experiments on the table, and this is not where we get excited about just-over-the-horizon, gee whiz technologies! This is where we deal with political and economic reality, and what this bill represents is techno-optimism breaking out into complete techno-arrogance.

We previously had a bill for the land-based regulation of carbon capture and storage. Now we have got another one that deals with the ocean-based storage, at least for the 3 miles between the coast and where Australia's waters become the commonwealth's responsibility.