Gabrielle de Vietri MP
Member of Parliament for Richmond. Victorian Greens Spokesperson for Housing & Renting, Peace & Nonviolence and the Arts.
- BREAKING: Labor has covertly listed seven new public housing towers to demolish. All towers are homes to older residents, who are some of the most vulnerable to the impacts of forced relocation.
- Labor is pressing ahead with demolitions and ignoring resident voices, experts and a key recommendation from the parliamentary inquiry that said demolitions should be stopped unless they can prove it’s the only viable option.
- Today Labor has made it crystal clear what they care about: profits for their property developer and super fund mates. Labor is risking the lives of older and some of the most vulnerable people in our community, all so they can make their developer donors happy.
- This is a government that knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
- The good Doctor Tim Read is a steadfast friend, mentor & colleague. I'm so sad that he's stepping down and will desperately miss his dad jokes, his wisdom, calm, intelligence, random facts explained in great detail and all round lovely nature Get better quickly Tim - we’ll be right here beside you.
- I'm hearing concerning reports that the Collingwood Children's Farm management is about to be taken out of community hands and sold to a private company for $1. The sale has been facilitated by the Victorian Government. The decision is up for a vote at the AGM on Jan 28.
- If you're a member or visitor of the farm - let me know - what do you think about this? I hope the Collingwood Children's Farm remains a special, inclusive place where community gathers and magic happens. I'll be inquiring to find out more - I'll keep you updated.
- Shame on Adelaide Writers’ Festival for dropping multi-award-winning author Randa Abdel-Fattah. This is racist, political censorship. A capitulation that betrays writers, readers, and the very idea of literary expression. An institution that caves like this forfeits any claim to integrity.
- The backlash has been swift and principled. Power and solidarity with the dozens of writers who have boycotted - refusing to play along, standing with their colleague and with the movement for a free Palestine.
- My thoughts are with everyone affected by the loss of a young person in Fitzroy yesterday. We are reaching out to local leaders to ensure the community has the support it needs. Sending love and strength to family, friends, and community members at this difficult time.
- The US's illegal invasion of another country and kidnapping is a brazen act of American imperialism and a gross breach of international law. It's time for Australia to pull out of its military pact with the US - end AUKUS and remove US troops and bases from Australia.
- Sending love and care to communities in Sydney and across the country today who have been impacted by the senseless violence in Bondi last night.
- Everyone should feel and be safe to be in public and to practice their faith. These events shatter that sense of safety - my thoughts are with the Jewish community whose Chanukah gathering was targetted. This should never have happened.
- Something’s wrong. Enough homes are vacant across Melbourne to house every person sleeping rough right now.
- Two years ago we secured an empty homes tax across Victoria but Labor is too afraid to upset property investors to actually enforce the damn thing. This is what you get when the major parties work for the property lobby, not the people.
- Rental affordability is getting worse (or continuing at the same level of bad) in every part of Australia... except the ACT. The difference there? They introduced rent controls 4 years ago when the Greens were in government with Labor! Full article via @abcnewsbot.bsky.social
- We are so pleased that our campaign for emergency funding for cohealth has been successful, with the federal government hearing the community and ensuring GP funding until 31 July 2026. BUT we need a LONG-TERM solution and support from the Victorian Labor Government.
- The state needs to fund the counseling services and building repairs for the Collingwood site. Victorian Labor have been MIA. So we need to keep the pressure up! DM me for a sign on your fence or if you can help letterbox your neighbourhood.
- The Mayor of Yarra is a leading a thinly-veiled push to shut down our community’s hard-won and world-leading overdose prevention centre.
- The medically supervised injection facility was started because of the significant drug use and harm in the area. I would know - I lived just across the street before it existed and watched deals and drug use on my doorstep daily.
- It plays a crucial role saving lives and delivering pathways to recovery. Shutting it down would lead to devastating impacts on our community and preventable deaths on our streets and in our alleyways. Deaths that will be on the Mayor’s hands.
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View full threadThe Labor Deputy Mayor is no better -seen arriving at the town hall, but waiting in the wings until voting was over to avoid controversy. She has a chance to put her position on the table, by supporting the motion to rescind so that community who were cut out of this have an opportunity to be heard.
- Closing this loophole to stop dodgy real estate agents inflating prices even more is a good step, but until they are forced to disclose the reserve price before auction, first home buyers will continue to get ripped off www.realestate.com.au/news/consume...
- Health should never be a political football. Lives and jobs are hanging in the balance. Last night the Parliament agreed to bail out cohealth. Now Labor must follow through, not next year, not as a shiny election promise - NOW.
- An update on the community campaign to save cohealth: Victorian Parliament just voted in favour of a Greens motion to commit to an emergency funding package for cohealth.
- I welcome this outcome but with great caution - Labor knows the community is watching and expect them to deliver. But now they must follow through on the resolution and actually deliver the funding. We won’t let up until they do - help us keep up the pressure to save cohealth.
- It's a relief to see some much needed rent reforms finally introduced into state Parliament today. Landlords will have to provide proof for bond claims and there will be a portable bond scheme so renters won't be out of pocket with two bonds when moving.
- These are no-brainer reforms that will help stop landlords taking advantage of renters and using bonds to profit off renters. But they’re a clear sign of the power imbalance between landlords and renters.
- As long as unlimited rent rises are legal, renters will live in fear of the next rent hike, and be forced to move time and again just to try to afford the rent. If Labor actually cared about protecting renters - not just property developers and investors - they would introduce rent controls.
- The graffiti in Fitzroy glorifying the October 7 attacks has rightfully shocked people in our community - it has no place here and our thoughts are with the Jewish community and all those whose lives have been affected.
- Time and again, we’ve seen isolated incidents used to characterise an entire movement as violent. It’s important that we distinguish that the hateful actions of one do not reflect a community of hundreds of thousands who have come together calling for peace.
- We mourn every innocent life that has been taken. We need to keep coming together to call on our leaders to do everything in their power to stop the killing and ensure a lasting peace and justice in Palestine.
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- This has gotten seriously out of control - for all of Labor’s big numbers and big announcements, their response to the housing crisis has done nothing but line the pockets of property developers and push more and more people into housing stress and homelessness.
- The number of applications for public and community housing is up by 7% in the last year. 80% of landlords raised the rent in the past two years with an average increase of 17%.
- Meanwhile, Labor's solution to the housing crisis is to demolish all the public housing towers in the state and lock renters into unlimited rent increases. And their 5% deposit scheme will be sure to send house prices skyrocketing and lock first home buyers into debt they can't afford.
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- The fact that just weeks out, the Government was secretly trying to cancel the 2024 Land Forces weapons expo while publicly insisting that it was good for our economy - shows us our collective power and proves that we are the reason that Land Forces 2026 won't happen in Victoria. Protest works.
- Labor is letting private developers decide what is 'affordable'. This is what 10,000 public housing residents are about to be plunged into if we don't stop Labor's plan to demolish and privatise all 44 of the public housing towers in Victoria. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
- Over the next month Labor is planning to push out the remaining public housing residents in a number of towers in Flemington and North Melbourne. To stop this project our community will need to turn out. Send me a DM to get involved.
