Thursday, 6 March 2025
Members statements
Camping regulation
Tim BULL
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Camping regulation
Tim BULL (Gippsland East) (09:44): Over the Christmas school holidays the free camping policy of this government resulted in a disastrous situation. We had ghost camping at a very high level. Half the sites booked at some of the popular locations were not occupied at all at Christmas time. If nothing is done, we will have a repeat of this over the Easter school holiday period, and that will have even more impacts on our local economy and the economies of other areas of regional Victoria. The minister has been silent on this, and I want to know what he is going to put in place to alter this policy to ensure that we do not have a repeat.