Tuesday, 13 August 2024

Members statements

North East Link

Matthew GUY (Bulleen) (13:31): I was recently speaking to residents in St Andrews Crescent and Claremont Lane in Bulleen about seeking some changes to their homes because of the disruption of the North East Link. People have been left with huge issues in relation to cracking in their homes and in relation to noise attenuation – they cannot sleep, and it is just completely unfair how these people are living. What I find frustrating and what I want to put on the record is that the North East Link is now telling people that they cannot fix their problems because the Labor government is out of money. How can this be? How can the Labor Party bankrupt this state for the third time they have been in government – the 1980s, the 2000s and now again? They have come to government and bankrupted this state. They have turned our once proud city into a place with 30 per cent office vacancy downtown and 50 per cent office vacancy on St Kilda Road – outgoings only on St Kilda Road. It is such a disaster. Someone has got to pay for this mess. The Labor Party has got to pay for this mess. The people who put us in this mess have got to pay. Maybe if we were like Europe, where offences of financial misconduct in public office are a criminal offence, the Labor Party might get the message and Andrews, Allan and Pallas would listen.