Gippsland East electorate bushfire recovery initiatives
Mr T BULL (Gippsland East) (09:39): I wish to raise a couple of issues in my local community that need addressing that I will be lodging questions on notice about today. The first relates to the replacement of the Cape Conran cabins that were burned in the 2019–20 bushfires, and this is on behalf of the members of the Orbost and Marlo community. Immediately after the fires there were five of those cabins that survived. The first of the 11 replacement cabins has turned up at Cape Conran, which is good news—finally, after 2½ years. But there are now rumours circling about that of the five remaining cabins that the community was told would be retained, four of them are going to be bulldozed and removed. If those plans have indeed changed, I call on the minister to please inform the community, because the expectation there is that those five cabins will all be retained.