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Portfolio note · Thursday 27 August 2026

Portfolio — 27 August 2026

Tribune’s note

The Assembly window for Laverton is defined by committee accountability work rather than chamber debate. The Member for Laverton presented two parliamentary committee reports to the Assembly: the Public Accounts and Estimates Committee inquiry into the 2026–27 budget estimates with supporting transcripts, and the 60th Parliament End of Term Report with appendices [TA-260825-vichns-1f0d21d52e31:s002 TA-260825-vichns-1f0d21d52e31:s003].

Both reports, along with a Scrutiny of Acts and Regulations Committee Alert Digest No. 11, were ordered to be published [TA-260825-vichns-1f0d21d52e31:s003]. The presentation of an end-of-parliament report alongside current budget estimates scrutiny signals the breadth of committee accountability work the Member carried in the 60th Parliament's closing period.

The district's name also surfaced in the third-party lane, though not in a policy context directed at Laverton itself. Mr Evan Mulholland, in an Assembly contribution, noted that Ghada Noune — the Liberal candidate for Laverton — attended the grand re-opening of Kasr Sweets in Roxburgh Park [TA-260813-vichns-3cfdce8de236:s013]. Mr Mulholland used the occasion to note that he had raised the business's earlier firebombing attack in the chamber nearly two years prior.

The reference to Laverton in this context is incidental — the candidate's name is cited as part of a broader community attendance — rather than a substantive policy invocation of the district.

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