Michael O’BRIEN (Malvern) (10:06): I do wonder whether Labor Premier Jacinta Allan and her Labor government actively despise the people of Malvern, because that would seem to be the only logical explanation for the constant attacks of this Labor government on my community. Fact 1, Malvern police station: under the Liberals Malvern police station was open 24 hours a day, seven days a week to keep the community safe. Then Labor cut the police budget so the station only opened during business hours. Now opening hours have been cut again to just three days a week, all of this while aggravated burglaries have gone up by 94 per cent since Jacinta Allan became Premier. Fact 2, protective services officers: Labor has stripped PSOs away from nine train stations in the Malvern electorate. Commuters who use Armadale, Darling, East Malvern, Glen Iris, Hawksburn, Heyington, Kooyong, Toorak and Tooronga stations have now lost PSOs at night, putting their safety at risk. Fact 3, activity centres: while Labor imposes 14 of its high-rise, high-density activity centres in the Malvern electorate alone, guess how many of them the Minister for Planning and the Premier have in their patches – none.
This morally and financially bankrupt government seems to take pleasure in hurting my community and making them less safe. I look forward to the election in November, when the people of Malvern will respond at the ballot box to the absolute contempt this Labor government shows for them.