Tuesday, 29 October 2024

Northern Metropolitan Region

Evan MULHOLLAND (Northern Metropolitan) (13:04): (1192) My constituency question is to the Minister for Environment. I note with interest that the Premier has announced that Victorians can ‘pick my park’ and propose new parks for access and upgrades. Around 1200 local residents have already signed my petition pleading with the minister to let them access one already beautiful open space at the heart of Greenvale, the Greenvale Reservoir Park that the government have closed and left closed for about a decade. So they have picked the park. The neglectorate of Greenvale has never had so many ministerial visits, and I am wondering whether the Minister for Environment is next on the visit list to reopen the park. He said:

Parks Victoria will continue to work with Melbourne Water and other key stakeholders to identify options to reopen the southern section of the park …

which they have previously promised. They promised in 2017 in writing that they would reopen it. Nothing has been done since. Spring is in the air, and as summer approaches I ask the minister to once again come clean with the people of Greenvale. They have ‘picked my park’. They want the park reopened.