Gippsland East electorate roads
Mr T BULL (Gippsland East) (09:39): The roads in East Gippsland have never been in a worse state. For some time they have been just falling apart. Warning signs abound telling motorists to slow down due to potholes and due to broken pavement. The Great Alpine Road, the Bengworden Road and the Paynesville Road are an absolute disaster. The Bruthen-Nowa Nowa Road—I could go on and on and on. The Stratford-Maffra Road—pavement breaking up. Now, with government cutbacks to road maintenance funding, there is no surprise this is happening. We need that funding restored, and we need roads built to a standard where the contractors know they are going to last. They are building them to a standard at the moment, because of the tenders that go out, that they know will not stand the test of time. And then we get these flimsy, weak patch-up jobs that are not long term, and they are back there again and again and again. It is time VicRoads gets fully funded and that work is done properly.