Wednesday, 15 October 2025

 Tim BULL (Gippsland East) (09:43): It has been reported that Orbost’s G-wagons, which are the Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action firefighting trucks in that area, are all currently offline. What my community wants to know is when they will be back in operation. We are in one of the most fire prone areas in the world. I think the minister has made some commentary around the fact that there are CFA trucks and slip-ons that are replacement vehicles. They are already a firefighting resource in the region, so they are not a replacement, they are already there. When the minister said yesterday we were scaremongering, I can assure him that it is my community that has sent me a number of emails wanting to know when these trucks will be back online. We simply want the information prior to summer and a timeline as to when they will be available again. Hopefully they will be back online very, very soon, but the community rightfully wants to know about it.