Wednesday, 29 October 2025

 Josh BULL (Sunbury) (09:48): Can I rise to thank everyone who attended the Excellence in Surveying and Spatial Information Awards recently, which I had the opportunity to attend on behalf of the government. As a son of a surveyor, I was really pleased to be able to take Dad along. I think he got to see some of the old colleagues that he worked with over the years and talk about all of those things that surveyors love to chat about. I want to particularly acknowledge the work of ThinkSpatial from the Pakenham level crossing removal project, Taylors from the Kananook train maintenance and wash facility, Beveridge Williams for the Webb Street level crossing and Auspat Land Survey Australia for their outstanding work on the West Gate project and acknowledge the significant and important work that surveyors do right across the state on our Big Build projects and on commercial and residential developments. It is an industry that is not often spoken about but it is a very important industry for our community. It enables the government to deliver more homes, more investment in local communities and the transport infrastructure that we know is so important to a growing city and a growing state.