Victoria State Government

And this is only growing it more.

And the revenue that I think it would've generated for the Victorian Government is just off the charts.

So-

300 million, they said

Tarang Chawla is a writer, a speaker, an anti-violence campaigner, and mental health advocate, and you are gonna love him as much as I did.

He is a founding member of the Victorian Government's Victim Survivors Advisory Council, and the founder of Not One More Nikki, a movement working to end violence against women in culturally diverse communities.

Behind so much of Tarang's work is something so incredibly personal.

Back in 2015, his younger sister, Nikita, was murdered by her husband.

So we, as you said, we're a global network, so founded in France.

We currently operate in 14 countries and we operate public transport networks on behalf of various state governments.

So they... own the assets and we bring our sort of global expertise and apply that in a local context to support all sorts of public transport networks.

Yeah.

What does that mean? So I lead our corporate affairs function nationally.

And what that means is there's a number of sort of disciplines that sit behind corporate affairs, but it's primarily about engagement and communication.

So stakeholder engagement is critical for us in terms of being well aligned with We spoke about the state governments owning the assets and operating on their behalf.

So making sure we have good alignment with the client, as it were, and other sort of key connections that we have in the network.

... yeah.

And I, I know recently we've seen the Victorian government announced a package of services dedicated to supporting the rights of older renters.

Um, can you tell us a bit more about the Older Person's Housing Rights Service and how it will support renters?

Yeah.

We're really, uh, excited about this.

The Victorian government has just, um, funded a new service, which is building on the work that we already do, but it's a big kind of boost.

Which is, uh, older renters' housing rights service, which will be a statewide service for anybody over 65 in any type of rental to be able to get advocacy, like individual advocacy and, and legal advice.

Um, so that means that we'll be able to continue to do our work in supporting older renters, but we'll also be partnering with Tenants Victoria, who's, which is a legal service, and they'll be, um, they'll be, you know, providing us with some lawyers, which will then be able to help us do that sort of deeper legal work, um, because we can't...