Thursday, 17 October 2024

Eastern Victoria Region

Melina BATH (Eastern Victoria) (12:56): (1177) My constituency matter is for the Minister for Roads and Road Safety and relates to a stretch of road between Leongatha and Mirboo North, just near Berrys Creek, and the huge and dangerous sink pothole that exists there. It is not a pothole, it is a landing strip for ducks in fact, and it has been repaired and fixed and repaired and fixed and it is smack in the middle of the road. It is a busy road with busy transport, agricultural transport, and cars and vehicles are having to detour considerably onto the wrong side of the road in a very precarious place. The government has seen fit to cut, change, rebadge and cut again our road maintenance budgets. And so I call on the minister to make sure that this particular stretch of road is fixed, profiled as a priority, for the people who drive on it, for their safety.

Sitting suspended 12:57 pm until 2:02 pm.