Wednesday, 18 October 2023

 Paul EDBROOKE (Frankston) (09:55): Speaker, I know last night you looked out on the horizon and you saw four magic cranes in the sky down in Frankston. I know you can see them from Bendigo even. You can see these bloody things from space. They are amazing – $1.1 billion of hospital being built right in Frankston. We have got our fourth crane up. It is out of the ground now –

Josh Bull: What about the car park?

Paul EDBROOKE: I will get to the car park, member for Sunbury. It is amazing. There are cranes in the sky and boots on the ground in Frankston. Of course though we have got the car park. Construction started on the Frankston commuter car park, which is a partnership with the federal government – one of the car parks the former federal government actually did get around to approving. We have made sure the Labor government has given us the money for that. It is being constructed – 500 free, new commuter car parks for the City of Frankston.

But we do not stop there. Across the road – go past the brand new station and brand new Young Street – we have actually got the second-stage redevelopment of Chisholm TAFE. Now, we know that Chisholm TAFE provide the skills people need for the jobs they want – for the whole peninsula. Indeed I do not want to risk offending my friends in the south-east, but this is the flagship TAFE of the south, and all of their community will be coming to this. There is so much going on in Frankston; we are winning education awards, we are winning tourism awards. We will keep this going. And do you know what? The funny thing is the former member for Hastings said to me, ‘You will never build that hospital.’ I want him to come back down from Queensland and visit now.