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 the Big Banks, Property Developers, and Corporations.
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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Labor trying to raise age restrictions on social media is like a fish trying to swim on land.
It won`t work. You can`t out-tech a teen.
Instead, we need to invest in social media education and improve social media literacy for both children and their parents.
Education, not prohibition. You can`t teach a child to swim without letting them in the water.
The Greens used our power in Parliament to strengthen and future-proof climate policy!
A Bill putting Victoria`s State Electricity Commission (SEC) into the state constitution passed this week with Greens amendments that ensure the SEC`s public ownership will only be used to drive investment in renewables or lower power prices.
The Greens’ amendment will prevent current or future Victorian governments from skimming capital and profits from the SEC into general government revenue in the form of ‘dividends’.
This means that instead of the SEC being just a logo, it will have a little more to spend on reducing power prices and saving our climate.
This is only a small portion of the investment needed to hit net zero and we won’t meet that goal if the Government continues to approve new fossil fuel projects that will have Victorians burning gas for decades to come.
The real challenge now is to get the Government to properly fund the SEC so it can play more than a token role in replacing coal with renewables.
The Greens will keep delivering real action on climate change, sign up to our climate campaign to come along on the journey with us (link in bio)
The right to peacefully protest is fundamental to all healthy democracies.
Excessive use of police violence including use of pepper spray, rubber bullets and whips is NOT an indicator of democracy.
Everyone should be able to peacefully protest without fear of police violence.
That`s why the Greens are calling for an independent inquiry into police tactics and use of force at the Land Forces Protest.
Today, the Victorian Labor government announced they will be working with the Federal Labor government to implement social media bans for young people, with the proposed age being below 14-16.
Just recently, Victorian Labor walked back their commitment to raise the age of criminal responsibility to 14.
Too young for TikTok but not for prison.
The Land Forces Expo will take place in Melbourne this week.
This expo will display dangerous weapons of war in our peaceful city.
The Labor Government will go to any lengths to ensure this expo goes ahead, including suspending parts of the Control of Weapons Act. Despite widespread social outcry and peaceful protests.
I guess I`m just left wondering why the Labor Government is going to such lengths for an expo that no one wants here in our peaceful city?
I`m so proud to have been a part of Students for Palestine`s rally on Tuesday at Monash University which called for the university to disclose and divest from weapons companies.
Over 450 students got down to vote and show their support for Palestine.
Keep using your voices to push for peace and advocate for what`s right.
The LGBTQIA+ community deserve better than whatever the heck this all is.
People are fed up with the supermarkets ripping us off, but there are things the Labor government could do to help, including implementing the Greens policy to declare food as essential. Watch me talk about it on the Today Show.
I asked Coles and Woolies reps what you can buy from their supermarkets for under $10 these days.
Turns out, not a lot.
Pretty bleak.
Coles and Woolworths are reporting billions of profits for yet another year, meanwhile people are struggling to afford food. That is why this week the Greens first read our Supermarket Industry Bill. To put a stop to price gouging.
If you`re a Monash student, join me at Monash University`s student general meeting to call on the University to cut it`s ties with weapons manufacturers and support a ceasefire.
This is our moment to stand up to corporate profiteering and make it clear: weapons companies don`t belong on campus!
See you there! 💚
23 year old Mano Yogalingam took his own life via immolation yesterday after 12 years of suffering and uncertainty at the hands of the Australian Government.
The Government must urgently review its unfair `Fast Track` policy.
People are dying. People are in pain.
This can`t go on.
Our thoughts are with his family, friends and community.
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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.
