Clean Air for All Victorians

22 February 2024

My question is for the Minister for Environment. As the minister knows, our government recently introduced the state’s first overarching air quality strategy, Clean Air for All Victorians. Over the next decade this plan will target pollution and improve air quality as we reach our target of a 45 to 50 per cent reduction in emissions by 2030 and net zero by 2035, targets we are actually legislating this week. It also states our government’s goal to advocate for stronger national standards, improved air quality monitoring and providing better access to information for the community. As part of this strategy the air quality improvement precincts grant program, which is run by Sustainability Victoria, recently approved $516,000 in funding for air quality improvements for businesses in Melbourne’s west. Many of these businesses are in my electorate, which contains some of the largest industrial suburbs in Melbourne. My question to the minister is this: what projects have been funded in my electorate of Laverton from the air quality improvement precincts program?