Dr Tim Read MP

Given Musk's behaviour, I'll be spending more time on BlueSky. You can find me @timreadgreens.bsky.social

Right now, the Greens’ inquiry into the impact of these cuts is underway. Well, one of those impacts is playing out in real time. Teachers having to go on strike to demand better.  This is the impact of underfunding public schools. We can and we must do better. (4/4)

That money is ripped from the funding pool that pays for teacher salaries. This cut means less support, less resources, & worse outcomes for students. Teachers could cross the border to NSW and get an almost $300 a week pay rise. It’s no wonder we have a teacher shortage. (3/4)

Victorian teachers in the AEU have just voted to stop work on Tuesday the 24th of March.  Our teachers are the lowest paid in the country and the Greens fully support them in fighting not just for themselves, but for Victorian students. (1/4)

A strong public education system is an important leveller in society. It shouldn’t matter your background or what your parents can afford, equal access to education is a fundamental right. (4/4)

Vic public schools receive thousands of dollars less per student than the rest of the country, and our teachers are the lowest paid. This has real impacts on outcomes. It means less support for students, programs being cut, and more kids falling through the cracks. (3/4)

How does Victoria’s underfunding of public schools impact children, families, teachers, and the broader community? That’s the question we’re hoping to answer on Thursday at the first hearing of the parliamentary inquiry into Vic Labor’s $2.4 billion public school cuts. (1/4)

We’ve seen scandal after scandal in Victoria. To clean this up - not just this time, but stop it from happening again - IBAC needs the powers it has been asking for. Anything less is a cop-out. (5/5)

Presently, IBAC can only investigate suspected criminal offences, but we know corruption often exists in the grey, the sort of thing you might get sacked for. Victoria's current definition of corruption is so tight that IBAC can't even make findings of "corrupt conduct". (4/5)

The Greens are bringing our anti-corruption reforms to parliament again today. The majority of Victorians want investigation into corruption on Labor’s Big Build - the only people standing in the way are Jacinta Allan and the Labor Party. (1/5)

A powerful article by @TimRRead Closing VicHealth is yet another capitulation to the corporations that dictate to Vic Labor. Wrong-headed in every way. theage.com.au/politics/victo…

Time this was scrapped! theguardian.com/environment/co…

There are invisible strings that the powerful use to keep critics at bay. theage.com.au/national/victo…

The morning after Labor blocked anti-corruption reforms, we learn they failed to report that $6 million of public money was stolen from the Metro Tunnel Project. We could've passed laws last night to investigate this. It's no wonder Labor blocked them. greens.org.au/vic/news/media…

Labor pulled out every trick in the book to stop the laws passing, including leaning on cross-benchers to shoot down anti-corruption laws. It begs the question, what are Labor trying so hard to hide? (5/5)

Think about that: billions handed by Labor to private corporations and contractors has allegedly disappeared to corruption, but our anti-corruption watchdog can’t track this money - and that’s how Labor wants it. (4/5)

BREAKING: Labor just blocked the Greens reforms to Victoria's anti-corruption watchdog, preventing it from investigating $15 billion lost to corruption on Labor’s Big Build Projects. Labor saw the parliament was going to pass the Greens reforms so they pulled the Bill. (1/5)