Ministers will be told to directly answer questions, or write a letter if they can't, in changes to be introduced in Victorian parliament.
Sitting days will have more family-friendly hours, and Dorothy Dixer questions will be banned.
Changes to Question Time will be first on the agenda on Tuesday when Victorian Parliament sits for the first time in 2015.
The practice of government backbenchers putting rehearsed queries to ministers to consume Question Time will end.
Instead, ministers will be allowed to make two minute statements "to advise the House of new government initiatives, projects and achievements".
The Speaker will decide if a question has been answered properly.
"All answers to questions must be direct, factual, succinct and relevant," the proposed changes to standing orders say.
If the answer isn't good enough, the minister may have to provide a written response by 2pm the next day.
The opposition says the changes won't stop ministers grandstanding.
This week will also give crossbenchers, the five Greens and five minor party MPs who have the balance of power in the 40-seat upper house, a chance to flex their muscles.
Premier Daniel Andrews has said he is confident he can get legislation through the upper house, which has two Shooters and Fishers MPs, the Sex Party, the Democratic Labour Party and Vote 1 Local Jobs.
Andrews said he was known for being able to work with people after the upper house results were declared in December.
The first test of that was just before Christmas, when Labor's bid to get their own candidate elected President of the upper house was defeated.
The Greens have already flagged they will expect to be listened to after the coalition controlled the upper house from 2010 to 2014.
