Ashwood electorate
Matt FREGON (Ashwood) (14:48): (1251) My constituency question is for the Minister for the Suburban Rail Loop in the other place, Ms Shing. The question I ask is: when will tunnel-boring machines be on the ground at the bottom of the 19.2-metre hole that is currently in Burwood to get digging started? We recently welcomed our mayor of Whitehorse Andrew Davenport at the site of Burwood to see the recently finished 19.2-metre hole in the ground. There has been a lot of work – and good on Laing O’Rourke and the Suburban Rail Loop Authority for doing that – but we all want to know, including the mayor and the councillors, when we are going to see the tunnel-boring machines. I will even go so far as to say on that very day, to paraphrase Etta James, at last the member for Bulleen has come along, because he said, ‘We’re not going to put the dirt back in.’ So it is full steam ahead under the ground. I cannot wait to hear.