Southern Metropolitan Region
David DAVIS (Southern Metropolitan) (16:55): (4) My constituency question is for the attention of the Minister for Transport and Infrastructure, and it concerns the Surrey Hills and Mont Albert level crossing removal project. Freedom-of-information requests have uncovered the existence of a number of sound studies on those crossings, which the government is refusing to release. And indeed the Office of the Victorian Information Commissioner has recommended – has indeed ordered – the release of those secret sound studies, and I think the community is entitled to know about these studies and the impact of the government’s crossing proposals. So what I am asking the government to do is to relent on its freedom-of-information approach and to release these documents in a way that the community can actually see the sound studies. I think they are entitled to see them. So to the Minister for Transport and Infrastructure: will she simply release the sound studies that the community are entitled to?