Tuesday, 5 May 2026

 Emma KEALY (Lowan) (12:40): (1620) My constituency question is to the Minister for Roads and Road Safety, and the information I seek is: when will the Western Highway be duplicated to Stawell and through to the South Australian border? This is a project which began back in 2013. Originally it was expected that the highway would be duplicated right through to Stawell by 2016, and yet we are still waiting for the Labor government to fund this very important road. It is the second-busiest highway in Australia. It is the subject of so many accidents and has caused so many fatalities, which is not just devastating to family members and people who have lost a loved one but also has a huge impact on the volunteers who turn up – the CFA volunteers and the SES volunteers – and of course an impact on our police as well. This is something that just cannot be continually kicked down the road and ignored. We are paying the price for a Labor government that has got its priorities all wrong. I ask the minister to explain when this project will be finished.