Thursday, 15 August 2024

 Sam GROTH (Nepean) (10:07): I am disappointed the Premier has left, because I was hoping she would stick around to maybe listen and acknowledge that the southern peninsula and Nepean actually exist here in Victoria. The warmer weather makes me hope, as we head towards summer and many members of this chamber on all sides will be booking their holidays and starting to head down to my part of the world, that they actually realise that it is not just a holiday destination, that people do live there 365 days a year, that all of the services, the roads, the hospital, the tourism providers, everything that they enjoy during that summer period actually operate year-round and that as they get in their chauffeur-driven cars and they drive down to Nepean and they book their piece of paradise they understand that the electorate of Nepean continues to go neglected in funding from this government.

Rosebud Hospital still remains completely underfunded. As you drive down the Mornington Peninsula Freeway, past those people that live in Dromana, in McCrae, in Rosebud on the sides of the Mornington Peninsula Freeway, it is one of the only metropolitan freeways left in Victoria that does not have sound barriers to protect those residents from the noise that traffic makes. When members opposite turn up to use our amazing hospitality and have dinner at our restaurants, our bars, they are making life more and more difficult with the taxes they are putting on those businesses. We have heard today about the red tape, the absolute difficulty that they are putting on businesses in this state to do what they need. When they come and swim at our beaches and they are being eroded away – (Time expired)