Tuesday, 5 May 2026

 Brad ROWSWELL (Sandringham) (14:15): Today is the day that the Allan Labor government delivered their 12th Victorian budget. I just want to spend a small amount of time indicating what was delivered for my community. Wait for it; here it comes –

That is right – nothing, absolutely nothing. There are good schools in my community – Sandringham College, Beaumaris Primary School, Beaumaris North Primary School and Mentone Primary School ‍– all deserving of infrastructure upgrades in their schools. But no, today has delivered nothing for those communities. As the government plan to increase the density of housing with their activity centres plan and with their Suburban Rail Loop, which no-one in my community ever voted for, there is no plan to step up the infrastructure and the services that are required with the anticipated uplift in population currently being imposed by the policy settings of this government. And good luck to those people driving down Bay Road. There is no infrastructure funding for a traffic study on Bay Road to make that safer for our community. All my community have ever asked for is their fair share of funding, and this is the 12th year in a row that my community have been given anything but that. This Labor government are more interested in servicing their backbenchers and saving their seats than governing for all Victorians.