Tuesday, 20 February 2024

Bayswater electorate storms

Jackson TAYLOR (Bayswater) (13:35): It has been very difficult week for many thousands of Victorians and indeed many locals in our part of the world with the extreme weather. I want to thank the countless workers out there fixing up lines and infrastructure to get people back connected. I know people greatly appreciate everything you are doing as well as of course all of our SES, CFA and emergency services and frontline responders.

From feedback I have received from locals, I have also discussed directly with AusNet the severe disappointment at some of the communication and the outage tracker, which for critical periods after the weather event was never fully functional. Respectfully, AusNet need to do better, and their website must be able to cater for volumes like we have seen recently and during the events in 2021. We know they are occurring more often. Information is critical in moments like we have seen, and this helps people decide what is best for them. I hope AusNet have heard this feedback and put the resources into their website for the future.