Mordialloc Creek
Tim RICHARDSON (Mordialloc) (17:27): (696) My adjournment this evening is for the Minister for Environment, and the action I seek is for the minister to update my community on the dredging profile and updates to Mordialloc Creek, which has been a significant investment in our local community. Mordialloc Creek is the jewel in the City of Kingston area, and Mordialloc is a place where people come to enjoy and love our natural environment and beautiful community. My electorate is named after the combination of words ‘little creek by the sea’, and the Bunurong land through there has supported generations of First Nations people. It has always been a beautiful meeting place, and together now with the mouth of Mordialloc Creek coming in and with all the boats and communities there it is a really spectacular place. But with inland storm surges, sediment coming down from Eumemmerring Creek and Mordialloc Creek really builds up and impacts on the natural environment and on the Mordialloc Creek community boaties through there. I was really proud to team up with a former minister for environment Minister D’Ambrosio, who secured funding for dredging of Mordialloc Creek. Mordialloc has an incredible profile coming up. We have got level crossing removals coming through, we have got the creek updates coming, we have upgrades to Mordialloc College with three stages of improvements and the STEM centre on the way and then to think about the real heart of Mordialloc being that creek – everything in Mordialloc is improving over time. I am really keen to get an update from the Minister for the Environment on the dredging profile there, the timelines for our community and how that will support the Mordialloc Creek community.