Category Archives: Family & Community Development Committee

Speech by the deputy chairman of the Family and Community Development Committee, the MP for Broadmeadows, Frank McGuire, after tabling the committee’s report in Parliament today.

Acting Speaker,

The Baillieu Government has been urged to help vulnerable students by reinstating the estimated $50 million funding cuts it made to VCAL.

The revelation is disclosed in a report I tabled in Parliament today as deputy chairman of the Family and Community

ABC – 7:30 Victoria | 12 Oct 2012

Our duty is to protect the innocents – my interview with Josie Taylor regarding the Child Sex Abuse inquiry on ABC 7:30 Victoria

See the report here

ABC News

13th August 2012, Alison Savage

The Victorian Government concedes and appoints eminent retired Judge Frank Vincent QC to assist Parliamentary inquiry into child sex abuse.

See the report here

19th July 2012

The investigation is into crime not faith. The crimes were heinous and committed against children. For many victims the offences were repeated, raising suspicions they were covered up. For these reasons, and to place this investigation above and beyond politics, I have repeatedly stated it is more appropriate for a retired judge or a Queen’s Counsel instead of a parliamentary committee to conduct the Baillieu Go