Wednesday, 4 February 2026

 Roma BRITNELL (South-West Coast) (14:40): (1478) My constituency question is to the Minister for Health. With the federal government now delivering an additional $25 billion to the states’ health budgets, will the Minister for Health finally confirm what the Labor government explicitly promised the people of south-west Victoria and build the new Warrnambool Base Hospital to the full scope that the community was told to wait for until it was scoped to perfection? The Premier quietly downgraded the project last year, slashing the scope behind closed doors, clearly hoping our community would not notice they were being short-changed. Minister, I expect you will now commit clearly and unequivocally to delivering the hospital south-west Victorians were promised, not the downgraded version this government is trying to slip through the back door.