Aiv Puglielli
Greens MP for North-East Metro
What matters to you?
As your local MP, I’m fighting for you and the issues you care about. Please tell me what matters to you most, so I can be your voice in state Parliament.
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Aiv Puglielli
Greens MP for North-East Metro
What matters to you?
As our local MP, I’m fighting for our community. Please tell me what matters to you most, so I can be your voice in state Parliament.
Don’t see your issues here? Tell me what else matters to you.
Hi, I’m Aiv. I'm a renter, an artist, and your representative in the Victorian Parliament.
Save Live Music in Victoria!
Lower the Cost of Living and Tax Big Businesses.
Stamp Out Hate Speech: Expand Victoria’s Anti-Vilification Laws.
Fix our Uni and TAFE system.
Pill Testing Now!
Keep Kids Out of Prison: Raise the Age of Criminal Responsibility.
Build Public Housing and Make Housing Affordable.
Fully fund our public schools.
Legalise Cannabis and Stop Criminalising Drugs.
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At 15 you can get a job, go to jail and start claiming youth allowance.
But you won’t be able to use social media to connect with peers according to Labor’s proposed social media ban.
Something doesn’t seem right here…
The Labor Government has extended the unprotection laws of dingoes. This will allow people to trap, shoot and poison dingoes on public and private land until 2028 in eastern Victoria.
This will send the Australian icon further on the pathway to extinction. It`s time we treated our native Australian wildlife with the care and protection they deserve. Let`s end extinction in Victoria.
As a queer person, I find it absolutely appalling the former Premier Daniel Andrews tried to say that I can’t stand with Palestine because of my queer identity.
If anything, my identity and experiences as a queer person have made me more empathic to the suffering of marginalised groups around the globe.
No matter what ignorant people say I will continue to stand with Palestinian families, queer Palestinians and all civilians continuing to experience genocide in Gaza.
#noprideingenocide
Big weekend of events in Melbourne’s North-East 🌿
Given I’ll be spending all of this week in Parliament for budget hearings, it’s great to touch grass and be out in all four seasons chatting to folks at Whitehorse Spring Festival in Nunawading and Malahang Festival in Heidelberg West 🌦️☀️🌷#whitehorse #banyule
And yes, I met Hulk.
Today was a scorcher of a day and our Free Community BBQ in Heidelberg was a roaring success! ☀️
We’ve run a few of these now around town and they’re an excellent opportunity to get out and meet local residents.
Some really important conversations today: more support for creatives to sustain our local artists and industry, providing resources to nearby food relief services to ensure everyone can put food on the table, and more local active transport for people looking to walk and cycle around town more safely! (Just to name a few)
We even met a few past Greens volunteers who were stoked to see our crew out and about offering a free feed to their neighbours, who were inspired to jump back in and volunteer their time with us. If this is something that sounds like it could be for you, then drop me a message! 💚
WANTED: Labor and Liberal
FOR: Prioritising their corporate mates over hungry Victorians
LAST SEEN: Forming a protection racket for the supermarket duopoly Coles and Woolworths.
REWARD: Report any sighting of this behaviour to put pressure on the political duopoly to stop supermarket price gouging.
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The Inquiry into Food Security report was tabled today, and something is clearly missing. There is a duopoly sized hole in the report.
During the hearings we heard a resounding message from many organisations in the food relief sector, councils, and individuals affected by food insecurity.
The message was; people cannot afford to eat, people are forced to choose between food and paying the rent and the Labor government needs to take action and regulate the supermarket duopoly Coles and Woolworths.
Yet this message is nowhere to be found in the report recommendations. And that is by design.
The political duopoly Labor and Liberal are running a protection racket for the supermarket duopoly. Teaming up to ensure no recommendations aimed at the duopoly were made, so their corporate mates can continue business as usual.
Whilst there are some great recommendations within the report, the fact remains that Labor and Liberals took a bite out of it, giving Coles and Woolworths a free pass to continue price-gouging at the expense of everyday Victorians.
Victorians will continue to suffer through this cost of living crisis as long as the major parties prioritise billion dollar corporations over you.
That is why the Greens will continue to keep up the pressure on both duopolies. We will always put people before corporations and fight to stop supermarket price-gouging.
Labor has promised to discount student debt by 20%.
This policy has the support of Parliament and could be passed before the end of the year.
But here’s the catch, they’ll only do it if Labor is re-elected.
They intend to keep students on the hook until after the election, dangling this debt relief in front of them until their votes have been cast.
New research from The Australia Institute has revealed that the big four banks make more than $200,000 profit from an average Australian home loan. Australian banks are among the most profitable in the world.
Meanwhile, everyday people are struggling under the weight of crushing mortgage repayments.
Stop the big bank rip off and make them pay their fair share.
The private market won`t deliver the affordable housing we need, so why don`t we just do it ourselves?
Israel has labelled the United Nations Relief & Works Agency, which provides urgent and much needed aid to Palestinians, a terrorist organisation and has prevented UNRWA from providing any further aid to Palestian refugees.
This violates the UN`s charter and international law.
The Labor Government urgently need to sanction the extremist Netanyahu Government and join the global calls for a ceasefire!
Labor’s housing plan doesn’t solve the housing crisis.
Giving handouts to property developers who only want to raise house prices to increase their profits won’t make housing more affordable.
We need to create a public builder to build more houses that will be accessible and genuinely affordable to all Victorians.
Weeks ago OFFICE, a design and research not for profit organisation, released a report which detailed a plan to retain all 44 public housing towers in Melbourne and save money in the process.
And Labor won’t even look at it.
Instead they continue to plough forward with their costly demolition plan that won’t solve any of Victoria’s housing issues.
They won’t listen to experts. They won’t listen to residents. It seems the only people they’ll listen to are those that will line their pockets at election time.
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As the youngest MP in the new parliament, it is important to me that young people have a seat at the table, speaking up for ourselves, and for generations yet to come.
- Aiv Puglielli
ABOUT ME
I never set out to be a member of parliament. Then I found out what it means to have a government tell you that you don’t matter.
In 2020, I was an artist and composer fresh out of university. Then, the pandemic hit, and many of my colleagues were pushed directly into housing stress. With no access to JobKeeper payments, it seemed like the government had left thousands of us behind.
Meanwhile, huge corporations got billions in handouts.
That’s when I realised that politics needed to change.
