AAP General News (Australia)
08-16-2001
Vic: Historic sitting of Vic parliament under way
Proceedings are under way as Victoria's parliament sits for the first time outside Melbourne.
The spring session of parliament opened today with a sitting of the lower house in
Bendigo and the upper house in Ballarat.
MPs assembled outside the Town Hall in Bendigo this morning where they received a traditional
Chinese greeting with dragon dancers and firecrackers, as well as a highland pipe band.
Several hundred people have gathered to watch the opening.
They include a number of anti-logging protesters and members of the Health and Community
Services Union drawing attention to their dispute with the government in the state's intellectual
disability services.
AAP RTV bp/clr/jas/jn
KEYWORD: PARLIAMENT OPEN (BENDIGO)
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