Tuesday, 18 November 2025

 Paul MERCURIO (Hastings) (19:09): (1424) My adjournment matter tonight is for the Treasurer, and the action I seek is for the Treasurer to come down to my electorate to meet with members of the Committee for Frankston and Mornington Peninsula to talk about the 2025–26 state budget and how it affects them. I am very happy to say that since I became the member for the electorate of Hastings I have had many ministers come down to my electorate to meet with a whole variety of community and business leaders to talk about the specific challenges that many small and large business owners in the electorate of Hastings face. In fact in 2023 and 2024 we had the then Treasurer the Honourable Tim Pallas come down on a couple of occasions to meet with business leaders to talk about how the Labor government supports small and large businesses. These meetings have been highly successful and talked about for many months afterwards. I would be very excited to continue this tradition and to have our current Treasurer come down for a Treasurer’s budget business briefing so that members of the community can hear firsthand from the Victorian state Treasurer and gain insights into the government’s priorities, investments and policy direction and understand how decisions made in Spring Street impact both Frankston and the Mornington Peninsula and in particular the Western Port region. I absolutely know the Treasurer would be very warmly welcomed and that members of the business community would greatly appreciate the opportunity to meet with her. I look forward to the Treasurer’s response.