Gabrielle de Vietri MP

Two years ago we secured an empty homes tax across Victoria but Labor is too afraid to upset property investors to actually enforce the damn thing.

This is what you get when the major parties work for the property lobby, not the people.

Something’s wrong. Enough homes are vacant across Melbourne to house every person sleeping rough right now.

Rental affordability is getting worse (or continuing at the same level of bad) in every part of Australia... except the ACT. The difference there? They introduced rent controls 4 years ago when the Greens were in government with Labor! Full article via @abcnewsbot.bsky.social

The state needs to fund the counseling services and building repairs for the Collingwood site. Victorian Labor have been MIA. So we need to keep the pressure up! DM me for a sign on your fence or if you can help letterbox your neighbourhood.

We are so pleased that our campaign for emergency funding for cohealth has been successful, with the federal government hearing the community and ensuring GP funding until 31 July 2026. BUT we need a LONG-TERM solution and support from the Victorian Labor Government.

The Labor Deputy Mayor is no better -seen arriving at the town hall, but waiting in the wings until voting was over to avoid controversy. She has a chance to put her position on the table, by supporting the motion to rescind so that community who were cut out of this have an opportunity to be heard.

He knows that turning his back on evidence and on harm reduction will go down badly and that’s why he brought it on with no notice and cancelled community consultation on the issue - it’s a disgrace.

It plays a crucial role saving lives and delivering pathways to recovery. Shutting it down would lead to devastating impacts on our community and preventable deaths on our streets and in our alleyways.
Deaths that will be on the Mayor’s hands.

The medically supervised injection facility was started because of the significant drug use and harm in the area. I would know - I lived just across the street before it existed and watched deals and drug use on my doorstep daily.

The Mayor of Yarra is a leading a thinly-veiled push to shut down our community’s hard-won and world-leading overdose prevention centre.

Consumer Affairs Victoria cracks down on dodgy comparable sales - realestate.com.au A loophole in Victoria’s underquoting laws is set to be closed in a move that’s put dodgy agents on notice.

Closing this loophole to stop dodgy real estate agents inflating prices even more is a good step, but until they are forced to disclose the reserve price before auction, first home buyers will continue to get ripped off
www.realestate.com.au/news/consume...

Health should never be a political football. Lives and jobs are hanging in the balance.

Last night the Parliament agreed to bail out cohealth.

Now Labor must follow through, not next year, not as a shiny election promise - NOW.

I welcome this outcome but with great caution - Labor knows the community is watching and expect them to deliver. But now they must follow through on the resolution and actually deliver the funding.

We won’t let up until they do - help us keep up the pressure to save cohealth.

An update on the community campaign to save cohealth: Victorian Parliament just voted in favour of a Greens motion to commit to an emergency funding package for cohealth.

I welcome this outcome but with great caution - Labor knows the community is watching and they expect them to deliver.

Now they must follow through and fund the emergency package. We won’t let up until they do - help us keep up the pressure to save cohealth.

As long as unlimited rent rises are legal, renters will live in fear of the next rent hike, and be forced to move time and again just to try to afford the rent.

If Labor actually cared about protecting renters - not just property developers and investors - they would introduce rent controls.

These are no-brainer reforms that will help stop landlords taking advantage of renters and using bonds to profit off renters. But they’re a clear sign of the power imbalance between landlords and renters.

It's a relief to see some much needed rent reforms finally introduced into state Parliament today.

Landlords will have to provide proof for bond claims and there will be a portable bond scheme so renters won't be out of pocket with two bonds when moving.

We mourn every innocent life that has been taken. We need to keep coming together to call on our leaders to do everything in their power to stop the killing and ensure a lasting peace and justice in Palestine.

Time and again, we’ve seen isolated incidents used to characterise an entire movement as violent. It’s important that we distinguish that the hateful actions of one do not reflect a community of hundreds of thousands who have come together calling for peace.

The graffiti in Fitzroy glorifying the October 7 attacks has rightfully shocked people in our community - it has no place here and our thoughts are with the Jewish community and all those whose lives have been affected.

We mourn every innocent life that has been taken. We need to keep coming together to call on our leaders to do everything in their power to stop the killing and ensure a lasting peace and justice in Palestine.

Time and again, we’ve seen isolated incidents used to characterise an entire movement as violent. It’s important that we distinguish that the hateful actions of one do not reflect a community of hundreds of thousands who have come together calling for peace.

In the last hour, the brave humanitarians aboard the Freedom Flotilla, which includes at least one Australian, Madeleine Habib, have reported being surrounded and intercepted by the Israeli military in international waters.

This is direct contravention of international law.

Property prices rise as buyers try to beat rush of first home buyers Home values have gained for the eighth month in a row. Experts warn that a rush of first home buyers signing up to the Home Guarantee Scheme will only fuel price growth.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

'Decades of neglect': 'dire' state housing picture Two years on from the inception of a target to build 800,000 homes in a decade, data illustrates...

Council to Homeless Persons' report: www.canberratimes.com.au/story/907858...

We need to build, not demolish public housing and urgently introduce rent controls.

Meanwhile, Labor's solution to the housing crisis is to demolish all the public housing towers in the state and lock renters into unlimited rent increases.

And their 5% deposit scheme will be sure to send house prices skyrocketing and lock first home buyers into debt they can't afford.

The number of applications for public and community housing is up by 7% in the last year.

80% of landlords raised the rent in the past two years with an average increase of 17%.

This has gotten seriously out of control - for all of Labor’s big numbers and big announcements, their response to the housing crisis has done nothing but line the pockets of property developers and push more and more people into housing stress and homelessness.