Gippsland East electorate
Tim BULL (Gippsland East) (14:53): (258) My constituency question is to the Minister for Roads and Road Safety, and the information I seek is what follow-up work is going to be done after the roadside clearing on the Great Alpine Road between Bairnsdale and Bruthen. There was a lot of advocacy to get this work done. What they have done – I think it was VicRoads with the support of the Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action – is they have cut down all these trees and cleared the roadside, which needed to be done after the fires, but they pushed them up against the fence lines of adjoining properties. We have moved our fire risk from being a vertical one to a horizontal one. The information I seek is what the minister is going to do, with another summer approaching, to ensure that those fuel loads that are now pushed up against private boundary fences are removed.