Wednesday, 19 March 2025

Gippsland East electorate emergency services

Tim BULL (Gippsland East) (09:45): With that budget coming up I also want to put on the record the need for this government to knock off a few of the requirements in Gippsland East. For some time the Lakes Entrance fire brigade and the Metung fire brigade have been seeking new stations.

We have Orbost police station and Maffra police station – all emergency services – in dire need of an upgrade. I am respectful of the fact we will not get all of those in this budget, but there are too many budgets going by when we are getting none of them, and I encourage the minister to please address that.

I also want to put on the record the need for better ambulance responses in Omeo. We have a mountain bike park there, and as we saw in Derby in Tasmania, accidents rise when you have a facility like that. The government needs to consider better emergency services in the Omeo district.