Constituency questions
Caulfield electorate
David SOUTHWICK (Caulfield) (14:35): (330) My question is to the Minister for Environment. Firstly, welcome to the new important portfolio. The minister and I share Melbourne’s best kept secret, one of the biggest parks, located in the centre of Melbourne’s Caulfield Racecourse Reserve. The minister and I worked on creating a new trust and a new act of Parliament, but they now need the money to progress the strategic management plan. The trust is being environmentally and fiscally responsible, retaining a second lake, removing the underground car park, ensuring no suitable playing services would be synthetic and reducing the overall cost of the project by half. I ask the minister to update the house on how the progress is going to ensure the important funding is given to progress the plan to deliver this important asset for the area.