Thursday, 20 November 2025

 Tim RICHARDSON (Mordialloc) (17:32): (1448) My adjournment this evening is to the Minister for the Suburban Rail Loop, and the action I seek is for the minister to detail for my community in the Mordialloc district the progress of works and anticipated construction timeframes and how this will benefit Mordialloc constituents.

This project has been to two elections. It has been a project that has significant community interest. Recent polling and surveying on this shows that the majority of Victorians see how important this project is, and this Labor government backs the important housing and public transport-creating projects that will transform our communities. This stands in stark contrast to what we have seen from, say, the member for Kew, the Leader of the Opposition, who suggests that this project will be shelved, or the visionary policy of the member for Bulleen, who on panels recently has said that this project would be supported if it got to a certain pro. So we have got a bipartisan position from the two-time former Leader of the Opposition, and then a shelving and cutting of thousands of jobs and the risk to 70,000 more homes for Victorians who need them most. We want those gen Zs and millennials priced in to the housing market, not priced out, living in the communities that they have grown up and been raised in – in the city of Kingston, in the city of Greater Dandenong – so that they have got an opportunity to be where they have grown up into the future.

The Suburban Rail Loop is a great transport connection to jobs, to education precincts – to where people want to go. This kind of visionary project will transform our communities for the future. For the Mordialloc district on the Frankston train line, you get to go up to the Cheltenham interconnection at Southland, at Sir William Fry Reserve, and you are on your way, and the travel time savings are absolutely outstanding. This is a project that will benefit constituents in my community and make sure that we can be close to the families that we love and cherish, not be told, like we have heard recently in commentary, that you have to go 60 kilometres out and work your guts out for 20 years to simply have an opportunity to live in the community that you have grown up in. That is not this Labor government’s approach. We want people to be supported and priced in to housing, and I am looking forward to hearing from the Minister for the Suburban Rail Loop.