Members at Work - Parliament of Victoria Members at Work THE WORK of Members of Parliament is diverse.
Members make themselves available to their constituents at an electorate office.
This is usually located in some accessible place in the electorate. At the electorate offices MPs take telephone inquiries, meet with constituents on matters of local or personal concern and answer correspondence. Members are also frequently called at home. They are involved in all kinds of local issues, serve as officials on any number of local bodies, open fetes, speak at various functions, forward their party's policies on any conceivable issue, be available to meet the local press, make tours of inspection, address school students, pensioner groups, interest and lobby bodies and anything else which they believe they are responsible for or can help with. As importantly, they also represent their electorates' concerns to Government departments and private enterprise bodies, to Ministers, and to the Parliament.