Greens MPs in Victoria

Ms PENNICUIK (Southern Metropolitan) -- I would like to congratulate Mr Neil Blake on winning the Dame Phyllis Frost Clean Beaches award. Neil Blake is the Port Phillip baykeeper and the director of the Port Phillip EcoCentre. He has been a major organiser and a participant in the 2011 clean beaches initiative put forward by the Port Phillip Clean Beach Coalition to clean up the beaches in the Port Phillip municipality.

Neil has been involved for many years in community-based projects and programs around the city of Port Phillip. He is a worthy recipient of that award, and I congratulate him on that. I also congratulate the Port Phillip EcoCentre on its adoption of a new strategic plan at its annual general meeting of 2 September, which I attended.

Ms PENNICUIK (Southern Metropolitan) -- My adjournment matter is for the Minister for Ports, Dr Napthine, and it is in regard to the incident that occurred at 1.20 a.m. on Saturday, 24 March, when a 27-metre fishing trawler ran aground at the tip of Point Nepean near Corsair Rock. The trawler was reported to be carrying 30 000 litres of diesel, 300 litres of hydraulic fluid and 500 litres of commercial lubricant. It ran aground in 10 to 15 metres of water in the area known as the Rip, which is one of the world's most treacherous stretches of water.

Sue Pennicuik, MLC for Southern Metropolitan Region, called on the government in parliament last night, to release the Victorian Coastal Hazard Guide and the Report of the Coastal Climate Change Advisory Committee.
 
"The Victorian Coastal Hazard Guide was expected to be completed by the end of 2011 and the report of the Coastal Climate Change Advisory Committee was submitted to the government in December 2010," she said. "That was more than a year ago and coastal communities around Victoria are waiting for these reports," Ms Pennicuik said.