Coffee Catch Up with Former MPs

The VPFMA committee is meeting on Friday April 21 and will be catching up for coffee before the meeting.  We will have a table in Strangers for other former MPs to attend from 9.30am until 11am.  We hope to see you then.

Parliament House Access Information

Guest Access to the Parliament: – From the Serjeant-at-Arms For security reasons, the Presiding Officers in the previous Parliament introduced a new automated visitor registration system for all guests of passholders visiting Parliament House. Passholders include members, Former MPs and staff. The expectation is that passholders pre-register their guests prior to their visit so the […]

Sovereign Hill Visit – express your interest in attending

The VPFMA will be making its first visit outside of Melbourne to Sovereign Hill Historical Park, Ballarat on Friday, April 28. Committee member, Geoff Howard has been working on the visit and we will be providing further detail well beforehand.  Members living in Melbourne could take advantage of the good train service to Ballarat from […]

Former Members’ Handbook

For Member’s information please see the Former Members’ Handbook Former Members Handbook November 2022_v4

Former Members’ Handbook

The Former Member’s Handbook (updated as at November, 2022) is available in the Member’s only section of the website.  If you don’t have access yet and you are a current member of the VPFMA, click on to Log In and go to Register – follow the prompts. If you have any difficulty please contact Tammy […]

President’s Update

New Year Update from the President, Peter Loney   A new year is upon us and we have a number of changes to our Committee.  Candy Broad and David Koch have retired after having made valuable contributions over many years.  Coming on to our committee are Kaye Darveniza and Gordon Rich-Phillips.  We look forward to […]

Australia Day Honours

Order of Australia Honours:- The VPFMA congratulates Graeme Stoney AM on the recognition of his public achievements in the Australia Day Honours List MEMBER (AM) IN THE GENERAL DIVISION OF THE ORDER OF AUSTRALIA The Honourable Eadley Graeme STONEY, Mansfield VIC 3722 For significant service to the community, and to the Parliament of Victoria. Mountain […]

New Committee Member

Our Committee is thankful for the contribution made to the VPFMA by retiring committee member David Kosh. We welcome new Committee Member, Gordon Rich-Phillips (pictured) and thank him for providing time and expertise to the association.