A inquiry into a public sex offender registry for Victoria will look at ways to stop violent rapists like Michael Cardamone living next door to families without their knowledge.
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Cardamone this week lost his appeal against a sentence of life in jail without parole, imposed for the brutal 2016 murder of his Whorouly neighbour Karen Chetcuti.
He was on parole at the time, after a jail sentence for raping a 15-year-old girl.
The day after that appeal failed, Derryn Hinch's Justice Party MP Stuart Grimley put forward the plan for an inquiry into a public sex offender registry.
"Is Cardamone the type of person you would like living in your community, near your house, having access to your family, friends, your children, without you knowing he was a lifelong registered sex offender?" he said.
"You are kidding yourself if you think there are no more like him in our community."
His colleague, Wangaratta-based MP Tania Maxwell, also supported the move.
"Clearly as a society we need to do even more work to stamp out sexual offences and prevent them from occurring," she said.
"Anonymity for perpetrators of sexual offences not only increases the risk of such offending but enables it to continue.
"Typically these offenders are calculating opportunists who prey on those they believe they can manipulate.
"Evidence frequently shows that they see their offending as exercising power over someone who they believe is unable to protect themselves."
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The legal and social issues committee, which Ms Maxwell is a member of, will look into the issue and report back to Parliament by June next year.
But the committee's chair MP Fiona Patten has stated she is against the public registry, saying it would not work and may have the unintended consequence of identifying victims who are related to their attackers.
"I think it is a very bad idea," she said.
"I think a register would be expensive, it would be counter-productive and, most importantly, it would not achieve the aim of keeping children safe."
