Aiv Puglielli
Greens MP for North-East Metro
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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.
Let Doggies Be Doggies
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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This morning, I joined @sammyjcomedian on ABC Radio Melbourne to discuss the Eltham copper butterfly statue.
Two suburbs, both alike in dignity.
One promised a statue, the other gaining the statue promised to the other.
There`s only one clear solution: two statues.
The Greens stands in solidarity with the United Workers Union as warehouse workers go on strike against Woolworths.
It`s time the duopoly was held accountable for their exploitation of employees and customers.
Had a great day at @heidemoma checking out the Molto Bello: Icons of Modern Italian Design exhibition 🇮🇹
Stoked to have events like this happening in my electorate. Absolutely gorgeous colours and shapes. Events like this can be really affirming and tell so many stories about times that have brought us to where we are today, I felt proud of my heritage 🤌
This weekend in particular they’ve hosted a whole range of activities: food, singing, and all things Italian. There were talks about parts of the exhibition delivered in both Italian and English.
They even had a room full. of. lamps. 🤯
Brb gonna tell all my cousins to come, ciao
Anasina Gray-Barberio will be a fantastic MP for Northern Metro.
I can`t wait to work with her to bring positive, progressive action to all Victorians.
Her speech is available to listen to here:
https://www.abc.net.au/pacific/programs/pacificbeat/pasifikampvictoria/104657328
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The pingers squad collab again to keep people safer this summer 😎
with @georgie.purcell.ajp motion:
That this House notes that —
(a) sniffer dogs do not reduce drug harm and in fact put people at more risk;
(b) sniffer dogs are not effective at detecting drugs the vast majority of the time;
(c) sniffer dogs at festivals with drug checking is counter-intuitive;
(d) sniffer dogs may cause festival goers to consume all their drugs at once which is outright dangerous;
(e) sniffer dogs are just dogs with jobs and should not be used at festivals;
And calls on the Victorian Labor Government to end its use of sniffer dogs across Victoria and let the doggies just be doggies 🐶.
The Rental Affordability Index was published last week. It offered conclusive data about the reality of the rental crisis affecting the Australian major cities.
The report showed that rental affordability in metro Melbourne has dropped by 6% over this year.
Zero suburbs in metro Melbourne were judged to be affordable. Across Melbourne’s eastern and northeastern metro, rent costs ranged from “moderately unaffordable” to “severely unaffordable”.
This means that anywhere between 25-60% of average household income in these suburbs is spent on rent.
For renters on Jobseeker, a brand new category of unaffordability had to be introduced: critically unaffordable.
This level meant that over 75% of income was being spent on rent.
Nearly all of Melbourne falls into this category for Australians who are struggling the hardest.
The only capital city that wasn’t deemed to be unaffordable was Canberra.
Canberra also has the best rent controls in the country. Who knew?
This crisis has been ongoing since the inception of the RAI and ten years of Labor Government has seen it only worsen.
Young Victorians are seeing their income sucked up by endless unregulated rental hikes when they should be saving for a home or starting a family.
People on minimum wage or benefits are struggling in poverty and pushed out of our major cities.
We have to take action. We need rental controls now.
https://sgsep.com.au/projects/rental-affordability-index
The Victorian government can’t simply stand aside and do nothing while a genocide is occurring.
Blindfolding and handcuffing civilians including children, forcing them to walk through town at gunpoint, referring to people by numbers. We can’t allow these dehumanising violations of international law and human rights to continue.
The Greens implore the Labor government to urgently call for a permanent ceasefire, and sanction the extremist Netanyahu government.
This housing crisis needs to solved through bold and decisive action, not just tinkering around the edges.
We need 100,000 new public homes that are truly affordable, to be built by a public builder.
We need unlimited rent rises to be ended for good.
And we need unfair taxes that benefit landlords and property developers to be overhauled.
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.
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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.
