Portfolio — 28 August 2026

The dominant discourse arc for Mulgrave in this window is community presence: the Member for Mulgrave, Ms Foster, has engaged across the district's multicultural and civic fabric, while the Assembly record also shows the district's name invoked in the context of government infrastructure investment in community sport.

Ms Foster attended the St Mary's Armenian Apostolic Church 50th anniversary gala ball, thanking Reverend Father Khacher Harutyunyan and the wider church community for their service to the Armenian community based in Mulgrave [TA-260826-vichns-9f81c0b98fb9:s016]. She also attended the launch of the Chinese Family Support Network Victoria community education program, which aims to assist migrant families in navigating systems and services and understanding their rights and responsibilities [TA-260826-vichns-9f81c0b98fb9:s017].

A visit to Waverley Meadows Primary School to mark National Science Week, alongside school captains Isla Joseph and Shael Dcunha, rounded out her community engagements [TA-260826-vichns-9f81c0b98fb9:s018]. Taken together, these three engagements reflect a consistent focus on cultural and civic community participation across the district.

In the Assembly, Mulgrave was also referenced in connection with two government-funded sporting facility openings. A $750,000 Victorian Government contribution funded a new Vermont reserve pavilion serving the Vermont Eagles football and netball club and Vermont Cricket Club, and a $500,000 contribution funded the Brandon Park Reserve pavilion and car park serving the Mazenod Football Club and Mulgrave Wheelers Hill Cricket Club [TA-260826-vichns-9f81c0b98fb9:s047].

Both projects were characterised as expressions of the Victorian Government's fair access policy, which aims to ensure women, girls, and people of all backgrounds and abilities have equal access to high-quality and inclusive sporting facilities [TA-260826-vichns-9f81c0b98fb9:s047]. The community sport investment strand reinforces the community-facing theme that runs across both the own-member and third-party records for this window.