Tuesday, 17 February 2026

 Emma VULIN (Pakenham) (15:02): Recently the Leader of the Opposition came to visit Pakenham. Her statement on her social media pages, where she bizarrely claimed that our government has not invested in infrastructure, got me pretty confused. She obviously did not see any of the schools and early education centres that we built: Kuyim, Kurmile, Kurrun and Boollam Boollam, and they are just a few. Nor did she see our community hospital, which is being constructed at a rapid pace, or two brand new train stations.

I would be interested to know what road she took to get into Pakenham, as there is a very good chance that we have probably upgraded it in the last couple of years or are currently doing so. In fact, when it comes to roads in Pakenham, if our government is criticised on anything, it is probably for doing too much, not too little. I will read a few of the comments that she received on her own page:

Is this satire? I live here and the biggest complaint is too many upgrades are happening simultaneously causing traffic congestion.

They literally just built a hospital

Hope you saw that magnificent and massive new rail infrastructure near Pakenham. Absolutely brilliant.

Can you please list infrastructure previous lnp governments have built please

To be fair, she did get one point right: Pakenham is a fast-growing community, and we do deserve infrastructure. I am proud to represent this great community and stand for the Labor government, who have heavily invested in my electorate.